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❨1❩ ❛ They are dreams, but I’m too out of control, I lose myself in them, and I’ve already lost too much to let them take over. ❜
 ❨2❩ ❛ Sometimes human places create inhuman monsters. ❜ ❨3❩ ❛ I'm not gonna hurt ya. I'm just going to bash your brains in. ❜ ❨4❩ ❛ Monsters are real. Ghosts are too. They live inside of us, and sometimes, they win. ❜ ❨5❩ ❛ The world's a hard place. It doesn't care. It doesn't hate you and me, but it doesn't love us, either. ❜ ❨6❩ ❛ The tears that heal are also the tears that scald and scourge. ❜ ❨7❩ ❛ Pull your act together and just go on. ❜ ❨8❩ ❛ I had never dreamed there could be so much pain in a life when there is nothing physically wrong. I hurt all the time. ❜ ❨9❩ ❛ Tough old world, baby. If you're not bolted together tightly, you're gonna shake, rattle, and roll before you turn thirty. ❜ ❨10❩ ❛ Are you sure self-pity is a luxury you can afford? ❜ ❨11❩ ❛ Truth comes out. In the end it always comes out. ❜ ❨12❩ ❛ Living by your wits is always knowing where the wasps are. ❜ ❨13❩ ❛ No matter where you go, the same asshole gets off the plane. ❜ ❨14❩ ❛ We sometimes need to create unreal monsters and bogies to stand in for all the things we fear in our real lives. ❜ ❨15❩ ❛ That’s your job in this hard world, to keep your love alive and see that you get on, no matter what. ❜ ❨16❩ ❛ Human nature, baby. Grab it and growl. ❜ ❨17❩ ❛ God wiped snot out of his nose and that was you. ❜ ❨18❩ ❛ Run away. Quick. And remember how much I love you. ❜ ❨19❩ ❛ How many times, over how many years, have I—a grown adult—asked for the mercy of another chance? ❜ ❨20❩ ❛ I was suddenly so sick of myself, so revolted. ❜ ❨21❩ ❛ You listen to me. I’m going to talk to you about it this once and never again this same way. ❜ ❨22❩ ❛ But those pieces, they’ll never fit just the same way again. Never in this world. ❜ ❨23❩ ❛ Dying is a part of living. You have to keep tuning in to that if you expect to be a whole person. ❜ ❨24❩ ❛ Officious little prick. ❜ ❨25❩ ❛ I’ve been sleepwalking again, my dear. — The plants are moving under the rug. ❜ ❨26❩ ❛ How I wish you were fear. ❜ ❨27❩ ❛ But it was a dreadful kind of curiosity, the kind that makes you peek through your fingers during the scariest parts of a scary movie. ❜ ❨28❩ ❛ All we have is time, you know. An eternity of time. Or shall we end it? Might as well. After all, we're missing the party. ❜ ❨29❩ ❛ We all remember our pleasant dreams more clearly than the scary ones. ❜ ❨30❩ ❛ The way things should be and the way things are hardly ever get together. ❜ ❨31❩ ❛ Got to be regular if you want to be happy. ❜ ❨32❩ ❛ But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. ❜ ❨33❩ ❛ He showed me his scars, and in return he let me pretend that I had none. ❜ ❨34❩ ❛ Humbling women seems to me a chief pastime of poets. As if there can be no story unless we crawl and weep. ❜ ❨35❩ ❛ It is a common saying that women are delicate creatures, flowers, eggs, anything that may be crushed in a moment's carelessness.  ❜ ❨36❩ ❛ If I had ever believed it, I no longer do. ❜ ❨37❩ ❛ I thought once that gods are the opposite of death, but I see now they are more dead than anything, for they are unchanging, and can hold nothing in their hands. ❜ ❨38❩ ❛ I cannot bear this world a moment longer. ❜ ❨39❩ ❛ I have a better idea. I will do as I please. ❜ ❨40❩ ❛ All my life has been murk and depths, but I am not a part of that dark water. I am a creature within it. ❜ ❨41❩ ❛ You cannot know how frightened gods are of pain. There is nothing more foreign to them, and so nothing they ache more deeply to see. ❜ ❨42❩ ❛ When we are young, we think ourselves the first to have each feeling in the world. ❜ ❨43❩ ❛ When I was born, the word for what I was did not exist. ❜ ❨44❩ ❛ But perhaps no parent can truly see their child. When we look we see only the mirror of our own faults. ❜ ❨45❩ ❛ I will not be like a bird bred in a cage, too dull to fly even when the door stands open. ❜ ❨46❩ ❛ This is what it means to swim in the tide, to walk the earth and feel it touch your feet. This is what it means to be alive. ❜ ❨47❩ ❛ You threw me to the crows, but it turns out I prefer them to you. ❜ ❨48❩ ❛ Yet because I knew nothing, nothing was beneath me. ❜ ❨49❩ ❛ If now I am wise, it is only because I have been fool enough for a hundred lifetimes. ❜ ❨50❩ ❛ You can teach a viper to eat from your hands, but you cannot take away how much it likes to bite. ❜ ❨51❩ ❛ Give me the blade. Some things are worth spilling blood for. ❜ ❨52❩ ❛ I have been old and stern for so long, carved with regrets and years like a monolith. But that is only a shape I’ve been poured into. I do not have to keep it. ❜ ❨53❩ ❛ I wake sometimes in the dark terrified by my life's precariousness, its thready breath. ❜ ❨54❩ ❛ Understanding the world is a matter of keeping very still and showing no emotions, leaving room for others to reveal themselves. ❜ ❨55❩ ❛ Beneath the smooth, familiar face of things is another that waits to tear the world in two. ❜ ❨56❩ ❛ The truth is, men make terrible pigs. ❜ ❨57❩ ❛ My father has never been able to imagine the world without himself in it. ❜ ❨58❩ ❛ This is the grief that makes our kind choose to be stones and trees rather than flesh. ❜ ❨59❩ ❛ Witches are not so delicate. ❜ ❨60❩ ❛ Those who fight against prophecy only draw it more tightly around their throats. ❜ ❨61❩ ❛ I learned that I could bend the world to my will, as a bow is bent for an arrow. I would have done that toil a thousand times to keep such power in my hands. ❜ ❨62❩ ❛ There's the story, then there's the real story, then there's the story of how the story came to be told. Then there's what you leave out of the story. Which is part of the story too. ❜ ❨63❩ ❛ The best way of being kind to bears is not to be very close to them. ❜ ❨64❩ ❛ Life is warped. I'm just in sync. ❜ ❨65❩ ❛ Now it's a whisper from the past. ❜ ❨66❩ ❛ But hatred and viciousness are addictive. You can get high on them. Once you've had a little, you start shaking if you don't get more. ❜ ❨67❩ ❛ Why is it always such a surprise? The moon. Even though we know it's coming. Every time we see it, it makes us pause, and hush. ❜ ❨68❩ ❛ Perfection exacts a price, but it's the imperfect who pay it. ❜ ❨69❩ ❛ What is 'belief' but a willingness to suspend the negatives?  ❜ ❨70❩ ❛ I have scars, inside me. ❜ ❨71❩ ❛ The dead are not entirely dead but are alive in a different way; a paler way admittedly, and somewhat darker. ❜ ❨72❩ ❛ However dark, a darkness with voices in it is better than a silent void. ❜ ❨73❩ ❛ Amazing how quickly the past becomes idyllic. ❜ ❨74❩ ❛ It is another way of saying tough luck. To people you aren’t going to help out. ❜ ❨75❩ ❛ I'm waiting, far off in the future. ❜ ❨76❩ ❛ The only sure camouflage is unpredictability. ❜ ❨77❩ ❛ There are so many of them, and each one of them is doing part of the killing, whether they know it or not. ❜ ❨78❩ ❛ First rule: limit bloodshed by making sure that none of your own gets spilled. ❜ ❨79❩ ❛ I long to swim in liquid moonlight. ❜ ❨80❩ ❛ That's right, I don’t like to be summoned on trivial matters. ❜ ❨81❩ ❛ The part that really made me happy was that you wanted me to be happy. ❜ ❨82❩ ❛ Cut that part out of us: the grinning, elemental malice. Begin us anew. ❜ ❨83❩ ❛ Where there are wars, there will be crows, the carrion-fanciers. And ravens too, the warbirds, the eyeball gourmands. And vultures, the holy birds of yore, old connoisseurs of rot. ❜ ❨84❩ ❛ At last. It's you. ❜ ❨85❩ ❛ No, you will not be cooked on a fire when you die. Because you are not a fish. ❜ ❨86❩ ❛ Take what the moment offers. Don’t close doors. Be thankful. ❜ ❨87❩ ❛ How many others have stood in this place? Left behind, with all gone, all swept away. ❜ ❨88❩ ❛ Is it disapproval or extreme lust? With some men it’s hard to tell the difference. ❜ ❨89❩ ❛ My hair was driving me crazy, but then … I died. ❜ ❨90❩ ❛ Seek and ye shall find, eventually. And you found. You’re right, I don’t dispute that. Sorry. ❜ ❨91❩ ❛ Everything digests, and is digested. ❜ ❨92❩ ❛ My head was once a filing cabinet. Now it’s a flurry of papers, floating on a draft. ❜ ❨93❩ ❛ You cannot keep bumping your head against reality and saying it is not there. ❜ ❨94❩ ❛ I have a feeling that inside you somewhere, there’s something nobody knows about. ❜ ❨95❩ ❛ And if I don’t want to die, I’ve got to start living. ❜ ❨96❩ ❛ The world is a beautiful place. Don’t forget that. And don’t miss it. ❜ ❨97❩ ❛ I was fighting for my life. So I must not want to die. ❜ ❨98❩ ❛ Something’s happening to me, through me, something dangerous and new. ❜ ❨99❩ ❛ It’s taken root, a poison tree; it’s grown, fanning out, vines winding round my gut, my lungs, my heart. ❜ ❨100❩ ❛ We’re interpreters. We’re translators. ❜ ❨101❩ ❛ You’ll notice I’m not asking what made you this way. ❜ ❨102❩ ❛ No family, happy or unhappy, is quite like any other. Tolstoy was chock-fullo’shit. Remember that. ❜ ❨103❩ ❛ We lived in monochrome those nights. ❜ ❨104❩ ❛ You live in a dream. You’re a sleepwalker, blind. How do you know what the world is like? ❜ ❨105❩ ❛ Do you know, if you rip off the fronts of houses, you’d find swine? ❜ ❨106❩ ❛ I stand here in the dark: cold, utterly alone, full of fear and something that feels like longing. ❜ ❨107❩ ❛ The definition of insanity is doing the same thing again and again and expecting different results. ❜ ❨108❩ ❛ Not to warm the flesh, but solely to please the eye. ❜ ❨109❩ ❛ Selective emotional detachment. ❜ ❨110❩ ❛ Not for me, or at least not today. ❜ ❨111❩ ❛ Dead but not gone, watching life surge forward around me, powerless to intervene. ❜ ❨112❩ ❛ Do I sound like a hillbilly saying that? ❜ ❨113❩ ❛ Remember, you’ve got your secret weapon. ❜ ❨114❩ ❛ The dream drains away like water. The memory, really. I try to scoop it up in my palms, but it’s gone. ❜ ❨115❩ ❛ My shadow stretches along the carpet, as though trying to detach itself from me. ❜ ❨116❩ ❛ It curls away from me, like blood in water. ❜ ❨117❩ ❛ It’s been so long since I felt the rain. Or wind—the caress of wind. ❜ ❨118❩ ❛ But snow I never want to feel again. ❜ ❨119❩ ❛ Through adversity to the stars. ❜ ❨120❩ ❛ No hero. No sleuth. I am locked in. I am locked out. ❜ ❨121❩ ❛ Thinking hasn't gotten me anywhere so far. ❜ ❨122❩ ❛ The face you give the world tells the world how to treat you. ❜ ❨123❩ ❛ Sometimes I think illness sits inside every woman, waiting for the right moment to bloom. ❜ ❨124❩ ❛ Women get consumed. ❜ ❨125❩ ❛ Sometimes if you let people do things to you, you're really doing it to them. ❜ ❨126❩ ❛ A child weaned on poison considers harm a comfort. ❜ ❨127❩ ❛ Safer to be feared than loved. ❜ ❨128❩ ❛ I ached once, hard, like a period typed at the end of a sentence. ❜ ❨129❩ ❛ It's impossible to compete with the dead. I wish I could stop trying. ❜ ❨130❩ ❛ I always feel sad for the girl that I was. ❜ ❨131❩ ❛ Every time people said I was pretty, I thought of everything ugly swarming beneath my clothes. ❜ ❨132❩ ❛ How do you keep safe when your whole day is as wide and empty as the sky? Anything could happen. ❜ ❨133❩ ❛ See, there I am. I told you I lived. I told you I was. ❜ ❨134❩ ❛ Sometimes I think I won't ever feel safe until I can count my last days on one hand. ❜ ❨135❩ ❛ To refuse has so many more consequences than submitting. ❜ ❨136❩ ❛ I'm here. I don't usually feel that I am. ❜ ❨137❩ ❛ I'm tired of dying. ❜ ❨138❩ ❛ What if you hurt because it feels so good? ❜ ❨139❩ ❛ How confusing to live in the shadow of a shadow. ❜ ❨140❩ ❛ Do you ever feel like bad things are going to happen, and you can’t stop them? You can’t do anything, you just have to wait? ❜ ❨141❩ ❛ Sometimes my scars have a mind of their own. ❜ ❨142❩ ❛ Everyone has their own version of a memory. ❜ ❨143❩ ❛ Isn’t a smile a girl’s best weapon? ❜ ❨144❩ ❛ My sense of weightlessness, I think, comes from the fact that I know so little about my past. ❜ ❨145❩ ❛ Do what I want; I might like you. ❜ ❨146❩ ❛ I feel sorry for Persephone because even when she’s back with the living, people are afraid of her because of where’s she’s been. ❜ ❨147❩ ❛ She has never told me she loved me, and I never assumed she did. ❜ ❨148❩ ❛ The sight of it actually does something to you, makes you less human. ❜ ❨149❩ ❛ It infects you. It ruined me. ❜ ❨150❩ ❛ Your health is not a debt you just cancel. The body collects. ❜ ❨151❩ ❛ Men love to put things inside women, don’t they? ❜ ❨152❩ ❛ We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom. ❜ ❨153❩ ❛ Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women. ❜ ❨154❩ ❛ The strongest of all warriors are these two — time and patience. ❜ ❨155❩ ❛ If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war. ❜ ❨156❩ ❛ There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth. ❜ ❨157❩ ❛ The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness. ❜ ❨158❩ ❛ Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy. ❜ ❨159❩ ❛ It's not given to people to judge what's right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong. ❜ ❨160❩ ❛ You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love. ❜ ❨161❩ ❛ If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed. ❜ ❨162❩ ❛ We are asleep until we fall in love! ❜ ❨163❩ ❛ I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself. ❜ ❨164❩ ❛ Everything I know, I know because of love. ❜ ❨165❩ ❛ Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. ❜ ❨166❩ ❛ If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself. ❜ ❨167❩ ❛ Yes, love, but not the love that loves for something, to gain something, or because of something, but that love that I felt for the first time, when dying, I saw my enemy and yet loved him. ❜ ❨168❩ ❛ How can one be well...when one suffers morally? ❜ ❨169❩ ❛ Kings are the slaves of history. ❜ ❨170❩ ❛ God is the same everywhere. ❜ ❨171❩ ❛ Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy. ❜ ❨172❩ ❛ One must be cunning and wicked in this world. ❜ ❨173❩ ❛ We love people not so much for the good they've done us, as for the good we've done them. ❜ ❨174❩ ❛ When one's head is gone one doesn't weep over one's hair! ❜ ❨175❩ ❛ For what, for whom, must I kill and be killed? ❜ ❨176❩ ❛ He did what heroes do after their work is accomplished; he died. ❜ ❨177❩ ❛ Life is too long to say anything definitely; always say perhaps. ❜ ❨178❩ ❛ Everything ends in death, everything. Death is terrible. ❜ ❨179❩ ❛ The distant and impossible suddenly became near, possible, and inevitable. ❜ ❨180❩ ❛ How often we sin, how much we deceive, and all for what? ❜ ❨181❩ ❛ The wolves should be fed and the sheep kept safe. ❜ ❨182❩ ❛ When I was a child, adults would tell me not to make things up, warning me of what would happen if I did. ❜ ❨183❩ ❛ My memory is a patchwork of occurrences, of discontinuous events roughly sewn together: the parts I remember, I remember precisely, whilst other sections seem to have vanished completely. ❜ ❨184❩ ❛ Would it be worse to love someone who is no longer there, or not to love someone who is? ❜ ❨185❩ ❛ Like mirrors stories prepare us for the day to come. They distract us from the things in darkness. ❜ ❨186❩ ❛ It is not that I was credulous, simply that I believed in all things dark and dangerous. ❜ ❨187❩ ❛ Sometimes you do things you regret, but there's nothing you can do about them. Times change. Doors close behind you. You move on. ❜ ❨188❩ ❛ Love will be an impulse that will inspire and ruin in equal measure. ❜ ❨189❩ ❛ He died alone. It don't matter a rat's ass whether there was anyone with him or not. He died alone. ❜ ❨190❩ ❛ It was love, I knew, and it tasted like champagne in my mind. ❜ ❨191❩ ❛ The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being averted, by love or foolishness or just plain old dumb luck. ❜ ❨192❩ ❛ She was my dream; and if you touch a dream it vanishes, like a soap bubble. ❜ ❨193❩ ❛ Daylight is always safe. ❜ ❨194❩ ❛ If not for death, they'd be content to simply exist, but with death, well, their lives will have meaning. ❜ ❨195❩ ❛ You want to know the future, love? Then wait. ❜ ❨196❩ ❛ There are things in the darkness beneath us that wish us harm. ❜ ❨197❩ ❛ Fairy tales are more than true. Not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be defeated ❜ ❨198❩ ❛ But sometimes you leave blood on your instruments. ❜ ❨199❩ ❛ I'd like to be a wolf. Not all the time. Just sometimes. In the dark. I would run through the forests. ❜ ❨200❩ ❛ You've seen them. They have mouths that twitch, and eyes that stare, and they babble and they mewl and they whimper. ❜ ❨201❩ ❛ They are not mad, or rather, the loss of their sanity is the lesser of their problems. ❜ ❨202❩ ❛ Good a reason for writing as I know: releasing demons, letting them fly. ❜ ❨203❩ ❛ That miserable state in which everything seems flat and of equal importance; when nothing matters, and in which reality seems scraped thin and threadbare. ❜ ❨204❩ ❛ Someone had scrawled graffiti in black marker on the metal: JUST DIE, it said. Like it is easy. ❜ ❨205❩ ❛ Winter started today. The sky turned grey and the snow began to fall and it did not stop falling until well after dark. ❜ ❨206❩ ❛ Memory is the great deceiver. ❜ ❨207❩ ❛ Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way. ❜ ❨208❩ ❛ I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.  ❜ ❨209❩ ❛ If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. ❜ ❨210❩ ❛ I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other. ❜ ❨211❩ ❛ But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me. ❜ ❨212❩ ❛ I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other would have borne it. ❜ ❨213❩ ❛ There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves. ❜ ❨214❩ ❛ One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. ❜ ❨215❩ ❛ Better be without sense than misapply it as you do. ❜ ❨216❩ ❛ You must be the best judge of your own happiness. ❜ ❨217❩ ❛ Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing ; but I have never been in love ; it is not my way, or my nature ; and I do not think I ever shall. ❜ ❨218❩ ❛ Indeed, I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise. ❜ ❨219❩ ❛ If I have not spoken, it is because I am afraid I will awaken myself from this dream. ❜ ❨220❩ ❛ If a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him. ❜ ❨221❩ ❛ Faultless in spite of all her faults. ❜ ❨222❩ ❛ A heroine whom no one but myself will much like. ❜ ❨223❩ ❛ There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart. ❜ ❨224❩ ❛ Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, and waste its fragrance on the desert air. ❜ ❨225❩ ❛ I pity you. I thought you cleverer. ❜ ❨226❩ ❛ Evil to some is always good to others. ❜ ❨227❩ ❛ I certainly will not persuade myself to feel more than I do. ❜ ❨228❩ ❛ She is loveliness itself. ❜ ❨229❩ ❛ Time does not compose me. ❜ ❨230❩ ❛ A man always imagines a woman to be ready for anybody who asks her. ❜ ❨231❩ ❛ I do not find myself making any use of the word sacrifice. ❜ ❨232❩ ❛ I am quite enough in love. I should be sorry to be any more. ❜ ❨233❩ ❛ I must tell you what you will not ask, though I may wish it unsaid the next moment. ❜ ❨234❩ ❛ I examined my own heart. And there you were. Never, I fear, to be removed. ❜ ❨235❩ ❛ With all your little faults, you are an excellent creature. ❜ ❨236❩ ❛ You have another long walk before you. ❜ ❨237❩ ❛ The child's laughter is pure until he first laughs at a clown. ❜ ❨238❩ ❛ What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many? ❜ ❨239❩ ❛ Out of the frying pan into the fire! ❜ ❨240❩ ❛ We must all make do with the rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow of humanity. ❜ ❨241❩ ❛ She sleeps. And now she wakes each day a little less. ❜ ❨242❩ ❛ And, oh, God . . . how frequently I weep! ❜ ❨243❩ ❛ From the coffin of your madness there is no escape. ❜ ❨244❩ ❛ I am feeling supernatural tonight. I want to eat diamonds. ❜ ❨245❩ ❛ All the same there is a chance that if we keep on shaking our chains, one day, some day, the clasps upon the shackles will part. ❜ ❨246❩ ❛ It was sad music fit to make you cut your throat. ❜ ❨247❩ ❛ Nothing is more boring than being forced to play. ❜ ❨248❩ ❛ Amongst the monsters, I am well hidden; who looks for a leaf in a forest? ❜ ❨249❩ ❛ Wherein does a woman’s honour reside? In her vagina or in her spirit? ❜ ❨250❩ ❛ Perhaps...I could not be content with mere contentment! ❜ ❨251❩ ❛ Have you ever stared stark failure in the face? The trick is to outstare it. ❜ ❨252❩ ❛ Sometimes it seems that the faces exist of themselves, in a disembodied somewhere, waiting for the one who will wear them, who will bring them to life. ❜ ❨253❩ ❛ I have the febrile gaiety of a being without a past, without a present, yet I exist. ❜ ❨254❩ ❛ I felt myself turning, willy-nilly, from a woman into an idea. ❜ ❨255❩ ❛ She looks wonderful, but she doesn't look right. ❜ ❨256❩ ❛ The one-eyed man will be King in the country of the blind. ❜ ❨257❩ ❛ I raised you up to fly to the heavens, not to brood over a clutch of eggs! ❜ ❨258❩ ❛ I love to hear my bones rattle. That’s how I know I’m alive. ❜ ❨259❩ ❛ I learnt, first, as the birds do, from the birds. ❜ ❨260❩ ❛ Inside and outside match exactly, but both are badly wrong. ❜ ❨261❩ ❛ During the less-than-blink of time it took the last chime to die, there came a vertiginous sensation. ❜ ❨262❩ ❛ I fear a wound not of the body but the soul, an irreconcilable division between myself and the rest of humankind. ❜ ❨263❩ ❛ I fear the proof of my own singularity. ❜ ❨264❩ ❛ Still nothing could calm the fearful storm in my erupting skin. ❜ ❨265❩ ❛ Petersburg, loveliest of all hallucinations. ❜ ❨266❩ ❛ A breathless second between black forest and the frozen sea. ❜ ❨267❩ ❛ I'm beginning to feel totally cut off from the world. ❜ ❨268❩ ❛ What does this all mean? Where are we? ❜ ❨269❩ ❛ Sometimes I bleed. ❜ ❨270❩ ❛ If you see a ghost, you say "hello". ❜ ❨271❩ ❛ The war is not over. ❜ ❨272❩ ❛ You're not going. You left us once already. ❜ ❨273❩ ❛ You can’t go! ❜ ❨274❩ ❛ I loved you, but that wasn't enough, was it? ❜ ❨275❩ ❛ If you're dead, then leave me in peace. ❜ ❨276❩ ❛ The only thing that moves here is the light, but it changes everything. ❜ ❨277❩ ❛ I won't ask for forgiveness for something I didn't do! ❜ ❨278❩ ❛ Sometimes the world of the living gets mixed up with the world of the dead. ❜ ❨279❩ ❛ Death of a loved one can lead people to do the strangest things. ❜ ❨280❩ ❛ Sooner or later, they will find you. ❜ ❨281❩ ❛ They're everywhere - they say this house is theirs. ❜ ❨282❩ ❛ You're always teasing me, and telling lies. I'm sick of it. ❜ ❨283❩ ❛ Others will come. Sometimes we'll sense them. Other times, we won't. ❜ ❨284❩ ❛ No crying now. No crying. Stop that. Here. Look what an awful face you've got when you cry. ❜ ❨285❩ ❛ You listen to me. I've seen them too. ❜ ❨286❩ ❛ You'll see. There are going to be some big surprises. There are going to be... changes. ❜ ❨287❩ ❛ Why did you go and fight that stupid war that had nothing to do with us? Why didn't you stay like the others did? ❜ ❨288❩ ❛ Your place was here with your family. ❜ ❨289❩ ❛ So you say you know this house well? ❜ ❨290❩ ❛ I wasn't expecting you so soon. ❜ ❨291❩ ❛ What's the matter? Has the cat got your tongue? ❜ ❨292❩ ❛ You mean they just vanished? Into thin air? ❜ ❨293❩ ❛ No door must be opened without the previous one being closed first. ❜ ❨294❩ ❛ Here, most of the time, you can hardly see your way. ❜ ❨295❩ ❛ Whatever you do, don't open the curtains. ❜ ❨296❩ ❛ Now, come on. Eyes closed. ❜ ❨297❩ ❛ We start off with high hopes, then we bottle it. We realise that we’re all going to die, without really finding out the big answers. ❜ ❨298❩ ❛ By definition, you have to live until you die. Better to make that life as complete and enjoyable an experience as possible, in case death is shite, which I suspect it will be. ❜ ❨299❩ ❛ I chose not to choose life. I chose somethin’ else. ❜ ❨300❩ ❛ And the reasons? There are no reasons. ❜ ❨301❩ ❛ Love does not exist, it's like religion, made to control you. ❜ ❨302❩ ❛ After all, we're not fucking stupid. At least, we're not that fucking stupid. ❜ ❨303❩ ❛ You fucking knew that fucking cunt would fuck some cunt. ❜ ❨304❩ ❛ Everything in the street today seems soft focus. ❜ ❨305❩ ❛ What does that make us? The lowest of the low. ❜ ❨306❩ ❛ Take your best orgasm, multiply the feeling by twenty, and you're still fuckin’ miles off the pace. ❜ ❨307❩ ❛ It’s as if everything is a copy of what you knew before, similar, yet somehow lacking in its usual qualities, a bit like the way things are in a dream. ❜ ❨308❩ ❛ It’s all okay, it’s all beautiful; but I fear that this internal sea is going to subside soon, leaving this poisonous shite washed up, stranded up in my body. ❜ ❨309❩ ❛ It cuts me up. It confuses me. ❜ ❨310❩ ❛ It's not funny laughter. This is lynch mob laughter. ❜ ❨311❩ ❛ Protect me from those who wish to help us. ❜ ❨312❩ ❛ They mean well, and they mean well to me, but there's no way under the sun that they can appreciate what I feel, what I need. ❜ ❨313❩ ❛ The pit of melancholy is a bottomless one, and I am descending fast. ❜ ❨314❩ ❛ Living like this is a full-time business. ❜ ❨315❩ ❛ I’ll stand or fall alone. ❜ ❨316❩ ❛ We are no wiser now than at the start. ❜ ❨317❩ ❛ This is pathetic, and fucking boring. ❜ ❨318❩ ❛ Death is usually a process, rather than an event. ❜ ❨319❩ ❛ We're ruled by effete arseholes. What does that make us? ❜ ❨320❩ ❛ We are all acquaintances now. ❜ ❨321❩ ❛ The problem is that this beautiful ocean carries with it loads of poisonous flotsam and jetsam. ❜ ❨322❩ ❛ Life is beautiful. I'm going to enjoy it, and I'm going to have a long life. ❜ ❨323❩ ❛ The grim reality of impending death can be talked away by trying to invest in the present reality of life. ❜ ❨324❩ ❛ There must be more to life than this. ❜ ❨325❩ ❛ We all see what we want to see. ❜ ❨326❩ ❛ Statistically speaking, you're more likely to be killed by a member of your own family or a close friend, than by anyone else. ❜ ❨327❩ ❛ What am I living for and what am I dying for are the same question. ❜ ❨328❩ ❛ Maybe that's what love is: it's being pissed off. ❜ ❨329❩ ❛ You can forget who you are if you're alone too much. ❜ ❨330❩ ❛ Any religion is a shadow of God. But the shadows of God are not God. ❜ ❨331❩ ❛ Human understanding is fallible, and we see through a glass, darkly.  ❜ ❨332❩ ❛ We must be a beacon of hope, because if you tell people there's nothing they can do, they will do worse than nothing. ❜ ❨333❩ ❛ Everyone wants to feel like a princess, and princesses are selfish and overbearing. ❜ ❨334❩ ❛ We shouldn't have been so scornful; we should have had compassion. But compassion takes work, and we were young. ❜ ❨335❩ ❛ How easy it is, treachery. You just slide into it. ❜ ❨336❩ ❛ Amazing how the heart clutches at anything familiar, whimpering: Mine! Mine! ❜ ❨337❩ ❛ All creatures know that some must die ; that all the rest may take and eat. ❜ ❨338❩ ❛ Is this the image of a god? My tooth for yours, your eye for mine? ❜ ❨339❩ ❛ Without the light, no chance; without the dark, no dance. ❜ ❨340❩ ❛ Why are we designed to see the world as supremely beautiful just as we're about to be snuffed? Do rabbits feel the same as the fox teeth bite down on their necks? Is it mercy? ❜ ❨341❩ ❛ Love is useless, it leads you into dumb exchanges in which you give too much away, and then you get bitter and mean. ❜ ❨342❩ ❛ Maybe sadness is a kind of hunger. Maybe the two go together. ❜ ❨343❩ ❛ Now I can see how that can happen. You can fall in love with anybody -- a fool, a criminal, a nothing. There are no good rules. ❜ ❨344❩ ❛ If you really want to stay the same age you are now forever and ever, try jumping off the roof: death's a sure-fire method for stopping time. ❜ ❨345❩ ❛ You couldn’t leave words lying around where our enemies might find them. ❜ ❨346❩ ❛ I'm fine, for the moment. And the moment is the only time we can be fine in. ❜ ❨347❩ ❛ Because if you can't wish, why bother? ❜ ❨348❩ ❛ It's better to hope than mope! ❜ ❨349❩ ❛ Reality has too much darkness in it. Too many crows. ❜ ❨350❩ ❛ In any case, time is not a thing that passes, it’s a sea on which you float. ❜ ❨351❩ ❛ I know I’m deceiving myself, but I prefer to deceive myself. I desperately need to believe such pure joy is still possible. ❜ ❨352❩ ❛ Too much God and you overdose. God needs to be filtered. ❜ ❨353❩ ❛ Behind my eyelids I saw an animal. It was golden colour, with gentle green eyes and canine teeth, and curly wool instead of fur. It opened its mouth, but it did not speak. Instead, it yawned. ❜ ❨354❩ ❛ ‘Why can't I believe?’ I asked the darkness. ❜ ❨355❩ ❛ Everyone’s too sad for everything. ❜ ❨356❩ ❛ If you can’t stop the waves, go sailing. ❜ ❨357❩ ❛ I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary. ❜ ❨358❩ ❛ Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them. ❜ ❨359❩ ❛ In the end, we'll all become stories. ❜ ❨360❩ ❛ I am inadequate and stupid, without worth. I might as well be dead. ❜ ❨361❩ ❛ If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions—you'd be doomed. You'd be ruined as God. ❜ ❨362❩ ❛ If you can't go through an obstacle, go around it. ❜ ❨363❩ ❛ Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results. ❜ ❨364❩ ❛ Time in dreams is frozen. You can never get away from where you've been. ❜ ❨365❩ ❛ Male fantasies, male fantasies, is everything run by male fantasies? ❜ ❨366❩ ❛ We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly. ❜ ❨367❩ ❛ If I love you, is that a fact or a weapon? ❜ ❨368❩ ❛ You fit into me like a hook into an eye. ❜ ❨369❩ ❛ Knowing too much about other people puts you in their power, they have a claim on you, you are forced to understand their reasons for doing things and then you are weakened. ❜ ❨370❩ ❛ Farewells can be shattering, but returns are surely worse. ❜ ❨371❩ ❛ Women have curious ways of hurting someone else. ❜ ❨372❩ ❛ This is the one song everyone would like to learn: the song that is irresistible: the song that forces men to leap overboard in squadrons. ❜ ❨373❩ ❛ Get rid of death. Make it be spring. ❜ ❨374❩ ❛ You are innocent as a bathtub full of bullets. ❜ ❨375❩ ❛ I am the space you desecrate as you pass through. ❜ ❨376❩ ❛ Favour me and give me riches, destroy my enemies. Save me from death. ❜ ❨377❩ ❛ She is a raw voice loose in the rooms beneath me. ❜ ❨378❩ ❛ Isn't the moon warm enough for you, why do you need the blanket of another body? ❜ ❨379❩ ❛ This is a torch song. Touch me and you'll burn. ❜ ❨380❩ ❛ If you look long enough eventually you will see me. ❜ ❨381❩ ❛ I would like to sleep with you, to enter your sleep as its smooth dark wave slides over my head. ❜ ❨382❩ ❛ I would like to give you the silver branch, the small white flower, the one word that will protect you from the grief. ❜ ❨383❩ ❛ But some people can't tell where it hurts. They can't calm down. They can't ever stop howling. ❜ ❨384❩ ❛ How else can we live, these days, except in the midst of ruin? ❜ ❨385❩ ❛ What am I living for and what am I dying for are the same question. ❜ ❨386❩ ❛ Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything. ❜ ❨387❩ ❛ We loved with a love that was more than love. ❜ ❨388❩ ❛ Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ❜ ❨389❩ ❛ The boundaries which divide life from death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins? ❜ ❨390❩ ❛ There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion. ❜ ❨391❩ ❛ Never to suffer would never to have been blessed. ❜ ❨392❩ ❛ Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear. ❜ ❨393❩ ❛ And all I loved, I loved alone. ❜ ❨394❩ ❛ Years of love have been forgot, in the hatred of a minute. ❜ ❨395❩ ❛ The best things in life make you sweaty. ❜ ❨396❩ ❛ There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told. ❜ ❨397❩ ❛ Anything is better than this agony. ❜ ❨398❩ ❛ You fancy me mad. ❜ ❨399❩ ❛ I hear all things in the heaven and in the earth. ❜ ❨400❩ ❛ Who dares insult us with this blasphemous mockery? ❜ ❨401❩ ❛ Leave my loneliness unbroken! ❜ ❨402❩ ❛ A more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrills every fibre of my frame. ❜ ❨403❩ ❛ The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. ❜ ❨404❩ ❛ Let my heart be still a moment. ❜ ❨405❩ ❛ You call it hope —  It is but agony of desire. ❜ ❨406❩ ❛ Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing a vile or silly action for no other reason than because he knows he should not? ❜ ❨407❩ ❛ To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths! ❜ ❨408❩ ❛ The beating of a drum stimulates the soldier into courage. ❜ ❨409❩ ❛ Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive. ❜ ❨410❩ ❛ I have been happy, though in a dream. ❜ ❨411❩ ❛ Nevermore. ❜ ❨412❩ ❛ The truth is, I am heartily sick of this life. ❜ ❨413❩ ❛ I am convinced that every thing is going wrong. ❜ ❨414❩ ❛ The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls. ❜ ❨415❩ ❛ And if I died, at least I will have died for you! ❜ ❨416❩ ❛ It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain; but once conceived, it haunted me day and night. ❜ ❨417❩ ❛ Hurt and humiliation — But this, I can not take. ❜ ❨418❩ ❛ The walls in there have ears. ❜ ❨419❩ ❛ This is for your ears only. ❜ ❨420❩ ❛ What is it? You have me scared. ❜ ❨421❩ ❛ Whoever isn’t for us, is against us. ❜ ❨422❩ ❛ You are just a body; to be dumped, disposed of like a carcass, left out for the birds to feed on. ❜ ❨423❩ ❛ The dead will have to forgive me. ❜ ❨424❩ ❛ From now on and no matter how your mind may I change, I will not accept your help. ❜ ❨425❩ ❛ If death comes, so be it. There will be glory in it. ❜ ❨426❩ ❛ Live, then; and live with your choice. ❜ ❨427❩ ❛ I am doing what has to be done. ❜ ❨428❩ ❛ Nothing is going to stop the ones that love you from keeping on loving you. ❜ ❨429❩ ❛ Worst is the man who has all the good advice, and then because his nerve fails, fails to act in accordance with it, as a leader should. ❜ ❨430❩ ❛ Only a loony would walk himself into this. ❜ ❨431❩ ❛ Why do you need such fences and defences? ❜ ❨432❩ ❛ Enough. Do not anger me. ❜ ❨433❩ ❛ The gods, you think, will side with the likes of him? ❜ ❨434❩ ❛ Watch it. You are over stepping. ❜ ❨435❩ ❛ I warn you. You should keep a civil tongue. ❜ ❨436❩ ❛ There is no such thing as an oath the can not be broken. ❜ ❨437❩ ❛ Every now and then, the things you’d hardly let yourself imagine, actually happen. ❜ ❨438❩ ❛ And you stand over this? This is the truth? ❜ ❨439❩ ❛ The bigger the resistance, the bigger the collapse. ❜ ❨440❩ ❛ Iron that’s forged the hardest, snaps the quickest. ❜ ❨441❩ ❛ Even the wildest horses come to heel when they are reined & bitted right. ❜ ❨442❩ ❛ That’s how guilt affects some people. They break and everything comes out. ❜ ❨443❩ ❛ Will it be enough for you? To see me executed? ❜ ❨444❩ ❛ So you know something no one else knows? ❜ ❨445❩ ❛ They know it too. They are just too afraid to say it. ❜ ❨446❩ ❛ If you die, how will I keep on living? ❜ ❨447❩ ❛ There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, 'Consume me'. ❜ ❨448❩ ❛ How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. ❜ ❨449❩ ❛ Alone, I often fall down into nothingness. I have to bang my head against some hard door to call myself back to the body. ❜ ❨450❩ ❛ I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me. ❜ ❨451❩ ❛ For this moment, this one moment, we are together.  ❜ ❨452❩ ❛ Come, pain, feed on me. Bury your fangs in my flesh. Tear me asunder. ❜ ❨453❩ ❛ I am as neat as a cat in my habits. ❜ ❨454❩ ❛ Everything falls in a tremendous shower, dissolving me. ❜ ❨455❩ ❛ I am the foam that sweeps and fills the uttermost rims of the rocks with whiteness; I am also a girl, here in this room. ❜ ❨456❩ ❛ We are cut, we are fallen. We are become part of that unfeeling universe ❨457❩ that sleeps when we are at our quickest and burns red when we lie ❨458❩ asleep. ❜ ❨459❩ ❛ These moments of escape are not to be despised. They come too seldom. ❜ ❨460❩ ❛ Up here my eyes are green leaves, unseeing. ❜ ❨461❩ ❛ The moment is all; the moment is enough. ❜ ❨462❩ ❛ I do not want to be admired. I want to give, to be given. ❜ ❨463❩ ❛ I am not one and simple, but complex and many. ❜ ❨464❩ ❛ And if you are dead, I shall weep. ❜ ❨465❩ ❛ But beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful. ❜ ❨466❩ ❛ But our hatred is almost indistinguishable from our love. ❜ ❨467❩ ❛ I desired always to stretch the night and fill it fuller and fuller with dreams. ❜ ❨468❩ ❛ Life is a dream surely. ❜ ❨469❩ ❛ I think sometimes I am not a woman, but the light that falls on this gate, on this ground. I am the seasons, I think sometimes, January, May, November; the mud, the mist, the dawn. ❜ ❨470❩ ❛ Oh, I am in love with life! ❜ ❨471❩ ❛ I have been knotted; I have been torn apart. ❜ ❨472❩ ❛ There was no freedom in life, and certainly there was none in death. ❜ ❨473❩ ❛ I do not know. I do not know myself sometimes, or how to measure and name and count out the grains that make me what I am. ❜ ❨474❩ ❛ I ride rough waters, and shall sink with no one to save me. ❜ ❨475❩ ❛ I am above the earth now. I am no longer upright, to be knocked against and damaged. ❜ ❨476❩ ❛ I see it all. I feel it all. ❜ ❨477❩ ❛ Death is woven in with the violets. Death and again death. ❜ ❨478❩ ❛ We have been walking for hours it seems. But where? I cannot remember. ❜ ❨479❩ ❛ If we were all on trial for our thoughts, we would all be hanged. ❜ ❨480❩ ❛ When you are in the middle of a story it isn't a story at all, but only a confusion; a dark roaring, a blindness, a wreckage of shattered glass. ❜ ❨481❩ ❛ Murderess is a strong word to have attached to you. It has a smell to it, that word; - musky and oppressive, like dead flowers in a vase.  ❜ ❨482❩ ❛ Sometimes at night I whisper it over to myself: Murderess, murderess. It rustles, like a taffeta skirt across the floor. ❜ ❨483❩ ❛ If the world treats you well, you come to believe you are deserving of it. ❜ ❨484❩ ❛ If I am good enough and quiet enough, perhaps after all they will let me go. ❜ ❨485❩ ❛ It’s not easy being quiet and good, it’s like hanging on to the edge of a bridge when you’ve already fallen over; you don’t seem to be moving, just dangling there, and yet it is taking all your strength. ❜ ❨486❩ ❛ There is no fool like an educated fool. ❜ ❨487❩ ❛ There are many dangerous things that may take place in a bed. ❜ ❨488❩ ❛ I am afraid of falling into hopeless despair, over my wasted life, and I am still not sure how it happened. ❜ ❨489❩ ❛ Underneath it all is another feeling, a feeling of being wide-eyed awake and watchful. ❜ ❨490❩ ❛ And underneath all that is another feeling still, a feeling like being torn open; not like a body of flesh, it is not painful as such, but like a peach; and not even torn open, but ripe and splitting open of its own accord.  ❜ ❨491❩ ❛ The small details of life often hide a great significance. ❜ ❨492❩ ❛ Guilt comes to you not from the things you've done, but from the things that others have done to you. ❜ ❨493❩ ❛ I wonder, how can I be all of these different things at once? ❜ ❨494❩ ❛ It is always a mistake to curse back openly at those who are stronger than you unless there is a fence between. ❜ ❨495❩ ❛ Some call this "Eve's curse," but I think that is stupid because the real curse of Eve was having to put up with the nonsense of Adam. ❜ ❨496❩ ❛ I don't know why they are all so eager to be remembered. What good will it do them? There are some things that should be forgotten by everyone, and never spoken of again. ❜ ❨497❩ ❛ I would never blame a human creature for feeling lonely. ❜ ❨498❩ ❛ If they want a monster so badly they ought to be provided by one. ❜ ❨499❩ ❛ It’s as if I never existed, because no trace of me remains, I have left no marks. And that way I cannot be followed. It is almost the same as being innocent. ❜ ❨500❩ ❛ Today you wear your habitual expression of strained anxiety; you smell of violets. ❜ ❨501❩ ❛ Of course you have always been an idealist, and filled with your optimistic dreams; but reality must at some time obtrude. ❜ ❨502❩ ❛ I wonder what would become of me, and comfort myself that in a hundred years I will be dead and at peace. ❜ ❨503❩ ❛ For it is not always the one that strikes the blow that is the actual murderer. ❜ ❨504❩ ❛ There is a “do this” or “do that” with God, but not any “because”. ❜ ❨505❩ ❛ If you have a need and they find it out, they will use it against you. The best way is to stop from wanting anything. ❜ ❨506❩ ❛ They say, why don’t you ever smile or laugh, we never see you smiling, and I say I suppose I have gotten out of the way of it, my face won’t bend in that direction any more. ❜ ❨507❩ ❛ I was shut up inside that doll of myself, and my true voice could not get out. ❜ ❨508❩ ❛ I see what you’re after. You are a collector. You think all you have to do is give me an apple, and then you can collect me. ❜ ❨509❩ ❛ If you want to be an asshole, it's a free country. Millions before you have made the same life choice. ❜ ❨510❩ ❛ Then there's the future. Sheer vertigo. ❜ ❨511❩ ❛ Nature is to zoos as God is to churches. ❜ ❨512❩ ❛ After everything that's happened, how can the world still be so beautiful? ❜ ❨513❩ ❛ There's something to be said for hunger: at least it lets you know you're still alive. ❜ ❨514❩ ❛ These things sneak up on me for no reason, these flashes of irrational happiness. It's probably a vitamin deficiency. ❜ ❨515❩ ❛ Toast cannot be explained by any rational means. Toast is me. I am toast. ❜ ❨516❩ ❛ You can’t buy it, but it has a price. Everything has a price. ❜ ❨517❩ ❛ As a species were doomed by hope, then? You could call it hope. That, or desperation. ❜ ❨518❩ ❛ I am not my childhood. ❜ ❨519❩ ❛ Human beings hope they can stick their souls into someone else and live on forever. ❜ ❨520❩ ❛ “I'll make you mine”, lovers said in old books. They never said, “I'll make you me.” ❜ ❨521❩ ❛ How much is too much, how far is too far? ❜ ❨522❩ ❛ Expectation isn't the same as desire. ❜ ❨523❩ ❛ Why not cut to the chase? ❜ ❨524❩ ❛ Maybe there aren't any solutions. Human society, corpses and rubble. ❜ ❨525❩ ❛ I thought you didn’t believe in God. ❜ ❨526❩ ❛ I need at least the illusion of being understood. ❜ ❨527❩ ❛ What change would have altered the course of events? In the big picture, nothing. In the small picture, so much. ❜ ❨528❩ ❛ You are only looking at the dirt under your feet. It's not good for you. ❜ ❨529❩ ❛ I like to keep only the bright side of myself turned towards you.  ❜ ❨530❩ ❛ Grief in the face of inevitable death. The wish to stop time. The human condition. ❜ ❨531❩ ❛ So many crucial events take place behind people’s backs, when they aren’t in a position to watch: birth and death, for instance. ❜ ❨532❩ ❛ Would you kill someone you loved to spare them pain? ❜ ❨533❩ ❛ When the water’s moving faster than the boat, you can’t control a thing. ❜ ❨534❩ ❛ Don't be so fucking sentimental. ❜ ❨535❩ ❛ Wrong, as usual. ❜ ❨536❩ ❛ Why do you want to talk about ugly things? ❜ ❨537❩ ❛ I understand why serial killers send helpful clues to the police. ❜ ❨538❩ ❛ Take your time, leave mine alone. ❜ ❨539❩ ❛ You will hear thunder and remember me. ❜ ❨540❩ ❛ If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly. ❜ ❨541❩ ❛ I seem to myself an accidental guest in this dreadful body. ❜ ❨542❩ ❛ Call me a sinner, mock me maliciously. ❜ ❨543❩ ❛ I, from the very beginning, seemed to myself like someone's dream or delirium. Or a reflection in someone else's mirror. Without flesh, without meaning, without a name. ❜ ❨544❩ ❛ I knew the list of crimes that I was destined to commit. ❜ ❨545❩ ❛ The future ripens in the past, so the past rots in the future. ❜ ❨546❩ ❛ You are untranslatable into any one tongue. ❜ ❨547❩ ❛ I was hoping my silence would fit yours. ❜ ❨548❩ ❛ See, we were never about butterflies. All about us is unearthly and radiant. ❜ ❨549❩ ❛ You do not know just what you've been forgiven. ❜ ❨550❩ ❛ I need to slaughter my memory.  ❜ ❨551❩ ❛ Forgive me that I appeared to you in waking dreams. ❜ ❨552❩ ❛ I will condemn, I will forget, I will give comfort to the enemy. ❜ ❨553❩ ❛ I know beginnings, I know endings too, and life-in-death. ❜ ❨554❩ ❛ Wild honey smells of freedom. But gold smells of nothing. ❜ ❨555❩ ❛ You are three times more beautiful than angels. ❜ ❨556❩ ❛ I will kill you without spilling your blood on the ground, not touching you with my hand, not giving you one glance. ❜ ❨557❩ ❛ You invented me. There is no such earthly being. ❜ ❨558❩ ❛ You’re late. Way too late. I’m glad to see you, nonetheless. ❜ ❨559❩ ❛ Forgive me that I felt forsaken. Forgive me that I kept mistaking too many others for you. ❜ ❨560❩ ❛ Real tenderness can’t be confused, it’s quiet and can’t be heard. ❜ ❨561❩ ❛ What else lived in that house besides us? ❜ ❨562❩ ❛ How unhappy we are together! ❜ ❨563❩ ❛ I defend not my voice, but my silence. ❜ ❨564❩ ❛ Without love, I'm more at ease, I'm sure. ❜ ❨565❩ ❛ I've got no more tears or explanations. ❜ ❨566❩ ❛ I’m not complaining. Happiness is not for me. ❜ ❨567❩ ❛ Are you not the only tie between good and evil, earthly pits and paradise? ❜ ❨568❩ ❛ In the morning we shall find out who has died in the night. ❜ ❨569❩ ❛ I was not a lovable child, and I've grown into a deeply unlovable adult. ❜ ❨570❩ ❛ The truly frightening flaw in humanity is our capacity for cruelty - we all have it. ❜ ❨571❩ ❛ I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Slit me at my belly and it might slide out, meaty and dark. ❜ ❨572❩ ❛ I am not angry or sad or happy to see you. I could not give a shit. You don't even ripple. ❜ ❨573❩ ❛ I was raised feral, and I mostly stayed that way. ❜ ❨574❩ ❛ I can feel a better version of me somewhere in there - hidden behind a liver or attached to a bit of spleen. But the meanness usually wins out. ❜ ❨575❩ ❛ I felt something loosen in me, that shouldn't have loosened. A stitch come undone. ❜ ❨576❩ ❛ Everyone who keeps a secret, itches to tell it. ❜ ❨577❩ ❛ Coffee goes great with sudden death. ❜ ❨578❩ ❛ I should just listen to my gut and then do the opposite. ❜ ❨579❩ ❛ “Smile, it can't be that bad!” Yeah, actually, it can, jackwad. ❜ ❨580❩ ❛ Everything bad in the world already did happen. ❜ ❨581❩ ❛ You’re going to find peace? Like knowing is somehow going to fix you? ❜ ❨582❩ ❛ Instead of asking yourself what happened, just accept that it happened. ❜ ❨583❩ ❛ Homesick for a place I've never been. ❜ ❨584❩ ❛ Worries find you easily enough without inviting them. ❜ ❨585❩ ❛ It is always consoling to think of suicide. It's what gets one through many a bad night. ❜ ❨586❩ ❛ Do you understand this is serious? ❜ ❨587❩ ❛ Sometimes it feels good to fuck with something. Instead of always being fucked with. ❜ ❨588❩ ❛ How could you kill something you cared enough to name? ❜ ❨589❩ ❛ Draw a picture of my soul, and it’d be a scribble with fangs. ❜ ❨590❩ ❛ We have the same chemicals in our blood: shame, anger, greed. Unjustified nostalgia. ❜ ❨591❩ ❛ I appreciate a straightforward apology the way a tone-deaf person enjoys a fine piece of music. ❜ ❨592❩ ❛ The phrase fuck you may not rest on the tip of my tongue, but it’s near. Midtongue. ❜ ❨593❩ ❛ Nothing to it but to do it. ❜ ❨594❩ ❛ There are a lot of people who deserve a lesson, deserve to really understand, that nothing comes easy, that most things are going to go sour. ❜ ❨595❩ ❛ If ifs and buts were candies and nuts we’d all have a very Merry Christmas. ❜ ❨596❩ ❛ Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change. ❜ ❨597❩ ❛ What does it do to a girl who knows her mother is a murderer? ❜ ❨598❩ ❛ That mean old bitch across the street bit it. ❜ ❨599❩ ❛ Survival is a talent. ❜ ❨600❩ ❛ Crazy isn't being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It’s you or me amplified. If you ever told a lie and enjoyed it. If you ever wished you could be a child forever. ❜ ❨601❩ ❛ Who has the courage to burn themselves? ❜ ❨602❩ ❛ Is insanity just a matter of dropping the act? ❜ ❨603❩ ❛ Have you ever confused a dream with life? Or stolen something when you have the cash? Have you ever been blue? Or thought your train moving while sitting still? ❜ ❨604❩ ❛ You need to be well fed, clothed, and housed to have time for this much self-pity. ❜ ❨605❩ ❛ When I am supposed to be awake, I am asleep; when I am supposed to speak, I am silent. When a pleasure offers itself to me, I avoid it. ❜ ❨606❩ ❛ There is thought, and then there is thinking about thoughts, and they don't feel the same. ❜ ❨607❩ ❛ In a strange way we are free. We've reached the end of the line. We have nothing more to lose. ❜ ❨608❩ ❛ The world won’t stop because we aren’t in it anymore. ❜ ❨609❩ ❛ I can't answer the real question. All I can tell you is, it's easy. ❜ ❨610❩ ❛ I am lighter, airier than I’ve been in years. ❜ ❨611❩ ❛ I am not dead, yet something in me definitely is. ❜ ❨612❩ ❛ You meant that as an insult but I am taking it as a compliment. ❜ ❨613❩ ❛ What life can recover from that? ❜ ❨614❩ ❛ It's a fairly accurate portrait of me. It's accurate but it isn't profound. ❜ ❨615❩ ❛ Pull yourself together! There's nothing wrong with you. ❜ ❨616❩ ❛ It's quiet. It's like― I don't know. It's like falling off a cliff. ❜ ❨617❩ ❛ Once you start parsing a face, it's a peculiar item: squishy, pointy, with lots of air vents and wet spots. ❜ ❨618❩ ❛ I lost him. I did it on purpose. ❜ ❨619❩ ❛ It’s a mean world. There’s nobody to take care of you out there. ❜ ❨620❩ ❛ Reality is getting too dense. ❜ ❨621❩ ❛ I'm ambivalent. In fact that's my new favourite word. ❜ ❨622❩ ❛ I can't come up with reassuring answers to the terrible questions you raise. ❜ ❨623❩ ❛ A spring day, the sort that gives people hope: all soft winds and delicate smells of warm earth. Suicide weather. ❜ ❨624❩ ❛ Twenty-five chocolate chip cookies would be the perfect dinner. ❜ ❨625❩ ❛ A thought is a hard thing to control. ❜ ❨626❩ ❛ Life demands skills I don’t have. ❜ ❨627❩ ❛ Light like this does not exist, but we wish it did. We wish the sun could make us young and beautiful. Most of all, we wish that everyone we knew could be brightened simply by our looking at them. ❜ ❨628❩ ❛ It never stops, even at night, it’s my lullaby. ❜ ❨629❩ ❛ Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. ❜ ❨630❩ ❛ This is the kind of thing you see if you sit in the darkness with open eyes. ❜ ❨631❩ ❛ I have done something wrong, something so huge I can't even see it, something that's drowning me. ❜ ❨632❩ ❛ Whatever is happening to me is my own fault. ❜ ❨633❩ ❛ Hatred is easier. Hatred is clear, metallic, one-handed, unwavering; unlike love. ❜ ❨634❩ ❛ Potential has a shelf life. ❜ ❨635❩ ❛ Don’t move. Stay like that, let me have that. ❜ ❨636❩ ❛ I have come to the edge, of the land. I could get pushed over. ❜ ❨637❩ ❛ Never pray for justice, because you might get some. ❜ ❨638❩ ❛ It disturbs me to learn I have hurt someone unintentionally. I want all my hurts to be intentional. ❜ ❨639❩ ❛ We have been shark to one another, but also lifeboat. That counts for something. ❜ ❨640❩ ❛ This is what I miss, not something that’s gone, but something that will never happen. ❜ ❨641❩ ❛ I am not good. I know too much to be good. I know myself. I know myself to be vengeful, greedy, secretive and sly. ❜ ❨642❩ ❛ You are amazing. Amazing and agonising and almost lethal. ❜ ❨643❩ ❛ In my dreams of this city I am always lost. ❜ ❨644❩ ❛ I don't know where these feelings have come from, I don’t know what I've done. ❜ ❨645❩ ❛ I am not the centre of your story, you are.  ❜ ❨646❩ ❛ I’m mad because you’re an asshole. ❜ ❨647❩ ❛ It's enormously pleasing to me, walking away. It's like being able to make people appear and vanish, at will. ❜ ❨648❩ ❛ There is never only one of anyone. ❜ ❨649❩ ❛ I can't do this without feeling I'm acting. ❜ ❨650❩ ❛ I am prepared for almost anything; except absence, except silence. ❜ ❨651❩ ❛ I’m losing my appetite for strangers. ❜ ❨652❩ ❛ You wear your cravings on the outside, like the suckers on a squid. You want it all. ❜ ❨653❩ ❛ Knowing too much about other people weakens you. You are forced to understand their reasons for doing things. ❜ ❨654❩ ❛ I have lost confidence: perhaps all I will ever be is what I am now. ❜ ❨655❩ ❛ Echoes of light, shining out of the midst of nothing. It's old light, and there's not much of it. But it's enough to see by. ❜ ❨656❩ ❛ Whoever cares the most will lose. ❜ ❨657❩ ❛ Young women need unfairness, it’s one of their few defences.  ❜ ❨658❩ ❛ Time has gone on without you. ❜ ❨659❩ ❛ Don't let the bastards grind you down. ❜ ❨660❩ ❛ Who can remember pain, once it’s over? Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind. ❜ ❨661❩ ❛ Better never means better for everyone. It always means worse, for some. ❜ ❨662❩ ❛ There is more than one kind of freedom. Freedom to and freedom from. ❜ ❨663❩ ❛ Remember that forgiveness too is a power. ❜ ❨664❩ ❛ I am not your justification for existence. ❜ ❨665❩ ❛ I want to be valued, in ways that I am not; I want to be more than valuable. ❜ ❨666❩ ❛ If it's a story I'm telling, then I have control over the ending. ❜ ❨667❩ ❛ All you have to do is keep your mouth shut and look stupid. It shouldn't be that hard. ❜ ❨668❩ ❛ Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations. ❜ ❨669❩ ❛ I want everything back, the way it was. ❜ ❨670❩ ❛ You can't help what you feel, but you can help how you behave. ❜ ❨671❩ ❛ Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub you'd be boiled to death before you knew it. ❜ ❨672❩ ❛ To want is to have a weakness. ❜ ❨673❩ ❛ There isn't even an enemy you could put your finger on. ❜ ❨674❩ ❛ The past is a great darkness, filled with echoes. ❜ ❨675❩ ❛ Ordinary is what you are used to. This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It will become ordinary. ❜ ❨676❩ ❛ I wish this story were different. I wish it were more civilised. I wish it showed me in a better light. ❜ ❨677❩ ❛ The night is mine, my own time, to do with it as I will, as long as I am quiet. As long as I don't move. As long as I lie still. ❜ ❨678❩ ❛ By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you. ❜ ❨679❩ ❛ Whatever is silenced will clamour to be heard. ❜ ❨680❩ ❛ Don't worry about forgiving me right now. There are more important things. ❜ ❨681❩ ❛ Keep the others safe. Don't let them suffer too much. If they have to die, let it be fast. ❜ ❨682❩ ❛ The body is so easily damaged, so easily disposed of, water and chemicals is all it is, hardly more to it than a jellyfish, drying on sand. ❜ ❨683❩ ❛ The world is full of weapons if you're looking for them. ❜ ❨684❩ ❛ Nobody's heart is perfect. ❜ ❨685❩ ❛ One false move and I'm dead. ❜ ❨686❩ ❛ Watch out. I've got my eye on you. ❜ ❨687❩ ❛ Fear is a powerful stimulant. ❜ ❨688❩ ❛ I couldn't afford to lose you. ❜ ❨689❩ ❛ Name one hero who was happy. ---- You can’t. ❜ ❨690❩ ❛ I feel like I could eat the world raw. ❜ ❨691❩ ❛ We are like gods at the dawning of the world. ❜ ❨692❩ ❛ I could recognise him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world. ❜ ❨693❩ ❛ There are no bargains between lion and men. I will kill you and eat you raw. ❜ ❨694❩ ❛ You can use a spear as a walking stick, but that will not change its nature. ❜ ❨695❩ ❛ He is a weapon, a killer. Do not forget it. ❜ ❨696❩ ❛ Some men gain glory after they die, others fade. ❜ ❨697❩ ❛ I am made of memories. ❜ ❨698❩ ❛ Will you come with me? ❜ ❨699❩ ❛ I wish I had let you all die. ❜ ❨700❩ ❛ It is right to seek peace for the dead. You and I both know there is no peace for those who live after. ❜ ❨701❩ ❛ Bury us. Let us be free. ❜ ❨702❩ ❛ Go. He waits for you. ❜ ❨703❩ ❛ Nothing could eclipse the stain of this dirty, mortal mediocrity. ❜ ❨704❩ ❛ I know I have told you of this. ❜ ❨705❩ ❛ I don't know how you remember them all. I swear they look the same to me. ❜ ❨706❩ ❛ Perhaps you should get some new stories, so I don’t fucking kill myself of boredom. ❜ ❨707❩ ❛ I yearn for the darkness and silence of the underworld, where I can rest. ❜ ❨708❩ ❛ There is no honour in betraying your friends. ❜ ❨709❩ ❛ There is no answer. Whichever you choose, you are wrong. ❜ ❨710❩ ❛ Divine blood flows differently. ❜ ❨711❩ ❛ How is there glory in taking life? We die so easily. ❜ ❨712❩ ❛ This is what I will miss, I think. I will kill myself rather than miss it. ❜ ❨713❩ ❛ How long do we have? ❜ ❨714❩ ❛ Do you think we fight hopeless wars? ❜ ❨715❩ ❛ There is no law that gods must be fair. ❜ ❨716❩ ❛ I do not fear ridicule. I never have. ❜ ❨717❩ ❛ You were always better with words than I. ❜ ❨718❩ ❛ Who can be ashamed to lose to such beauty? ❜ ❨719❩ ❛ When you see beauty in desolation it changes something inside you. ❜ ❨720❩ ❛ That's how the madness of the world tries to colonise you: from the outside in, forcing you to live in its reality. ❜ ❨721❩ ❛ The shadows of the abyss are like the petals of a monstrous flower that shall blossom within the skull and expand the mind beyond what any man can bear. ❜ ❨722❩ ❛ Silence creates violence. ❜ ❨723❩ ❛ Some questions will ruin you if you are denied the answer long enough. ❜ ❨724❩ ❛ There are certain kinds of connections that are so deep that when broken you feel the snap of it inside you. ❜ ❨725❩ ❛ Nothing that ever lived and breathed was truly objective—even in a vacuum, even if all that possessed the brain was a self-immolating desire for the truth. ❜ ❨726❩ ❛ We all live in a kind of continuous dream. ❜ ❨727❩ ❛ You can either waste time worrying about a death that might not come or concentrate on what’s left to you. ❜ ❨728❩ ❛ What can you do when your five senses are not enough? ❜ ❨729❩ ❛ We will neither be what we had been nor what we would become once we reach our destination. ❜ ❨730❩ ❛ Perhaps my only real expertise, my only talent, is to endure beyond the endurable. ❜ ❨731❩ ❛ When you are too close to the centre of a mystery there is no way to pull back. ❜ ❨732❩ ❛ I long ago stopped believing in promises. Biological imperatives, yes. Environmental factors, yes. Promises, no. ❜ ❨733❩ ❛ I look not for shooting stars but for fixed ones, and I try to imagine what kind of life lives in those celestial tidal pools so far from us. ❜ ❨734❩ ❛ I hesitated for just a moment. Some part of me wanted to see the creature, I think. If so, it was a very small part. I ran. ❜ ❨735❩ ❛ I don’t require any of this to have a deeper meaning. ❜ ❨736❩ ❛ All of this speculation is incomplete, inexact, inaccurate, useless. ❜ ❨737❩ ❛ We don’t have real answers, because we still don’t know what questions to ask. Our instruments are useless, our methodology broken, our motivations selfish. ❜ ❨738❩ ❛ This part I will do alone. Don’t follow. ❜ ❨739❩ ❛ People my entire life have told me I am too much in control, but that has never been the case. I have never truly been in control. ❜ ❨740❩ ❛ Has there always been someone like me to bury the bodies, to have regrets, to carry on after everyone else was dead? ❜ ❨741❩ ❛ I loved them, but I didn’t need them, and I thought that was the way it was supposed to be. ❜ ❨742❩ ❛ Places can impress themselves upon me, and I can become part of them with ease. ❜ ❨743❩ ❛ There is no one with me. I am all by myself. ❜ ❨744❩ ❛ Pretending often leads to becoming a reasonable facsimile of what you mimic. ❜ ❨745❩ ❛ I think you're confusing suicide with self-destruction, and they're very different. Almost none of us commit suicide, whereas almost all of us self-destruct. ❜ ❨746❩ ❛ What did you eat? You had rations for only two weeks. You were there for nearly four months. ❜ ❨747❩ ❛ Something here is making giant waves in the gene pool. ❜ ❨748❩ ❛ I need to know what’s inside. ❜ ❨749❩ ❛ These aren't decisions. They're impulses ❜ ❨750❩ ❛ What do you think I do when you’re away? Do you think I’m out in the garden pinning, looking up at the sky? ❜ ❨751❩ ❛ If I know what’s happened I can save their life. ❜ ❨752❩ ❛ They either went crazy or something in here killed them. ❜ ❨753❩ ❛ Something is coming through the fence! ❜ ❨754❩ ❛ Nothing is written in the stars. Not these stars, nor any others. No one controls your destiny. ❜ ❨755❩ ❛ People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us. ❜ ❨756❩ ❛ Happy endings are still endings. ❜ ❨757❩ ❛ We believe in all sorts of things that aren't true; -- we call it history. ❜ ❨758❩ ❛ Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil? ❜ ❨759❩ ❛ In the lives of children, pumpkins turn into coaches, mice and rats turn into men. When we grow up, we realise it is far more common for men to turn into rats. ❜ ❨760❩ ❛ Girls need cold anger. They need the cold simmer, the ceaseless grudge, the talent to avoid forgiveness, the side stepping of compromise.  ❜ ❨761❩ ❛ Love makes hunters of us all. ❜ ❨762❩ ❛ There is much to hate in this world and way too much to love. ❜ ❨763❩ ❛ You confuse not speaking with not listening. ❜ ❨764❩ ❛ As long as people are going to call you a lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention. ❜ ❨765❩ ❛ The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say. ❜ ❨766❩ ❛ Not everyone is born a witch or a saint. Not everyone is born talented, or crooked, or blessed; some are born definite in no particular at all. ❜ ❨767❩ ❛ We are a fountain of shimmering contradictions, most of us. ❜ ❨768❩ ❛ The wickedness of men is that their power breeds stupidity and blindness. ❜ ❨769❩ ❛ I know you don't want to hear this but someone has to say it! You are out of control! ❜ ❨770❩ ❛ Even at the very worst - there is always choice. ❜ ❨771❩ ❛ Maybe the definition of home is the place where you are never forgiven. So you may always belong there, bound by guilt. And maybe the cost of belonging is worth it. ❜ ❨772❩ ❛ Cross a man and you struggle, one of you wins, you adjust and go on -- or you lie there dead. Cross a woman and the entire universe is changed. ❜ ❨773❩ ❛ That was such a wonderful time, even in its strangeness and sadness. Life isn't the same now. It's wonderful, but it isn't the same. ❜ ❨774❩ ❛ I don't care for approval, and I don't mind doing without. ❜ ❨775❩ ❛ It's where I live. A permanent state of bereavement. This is nothing new. ❜ ❨776❩ ❛ Always the bridesmaid, never the bride. Always the godfather, never the god. ❜ ❨777❩ ❛ The world unwraps itself to you, again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew. ❜ ❨778❩ ❛ Evil is an act, not an appetite. Everyone has the appetite. If you give in to it, that act is evil. The appetite is normal. ❜ ❨779❩ ❛ How many haven't wanted to slash the throat of some boor across the dining room table?  ❜ ❨780❩ ❛ Even God used silence as a strategy. ❜ ❨781❩ ❛ I learned failure early and mastered it. ❜ ❨782❩ ❛ It isn't whether you do it well or ill, it's that you do it all. ❜ ❨783❩ ❛ This is why you shouldn't fall in love, it blinds you. Love is a very wicked distraction. ❜ ❨784❩ ❛ Wisdom is not the understanding of mystery. Wisdom is accepting that mystery is beyond understanding. That's what makes it mystery. ❜ ❨785❩ ❛ Wrong takes an awful long time to be proven, in my experience. ❜ ❨786❩ ❛ Such brightness, as you know, decays brilliantly. ❜ ❨787❩ ❛ I take responsibility only for the future, not the past. The past can't hurt you the way the future can. ❜ ❨788❩ ❛ Tell me to mind my own business, tell me to go fuck myself, to piss off, go on, say it, but don’t tell me nothing’s wrong. ❜ ❨789❩ ❛ The truth isn't a thing of fact or reason. It is simply what everyone agrees on. ❜ ❨790❩ ❛ One can't make peace with another by force. ❜ ❨791❩ ❛ I am a forgettable leaf on a tree. ❜ ❨792❩ ❛ That's all I want; --- to do no harm. ❜ ❨793❩ ❛ I only believe in the opposite of luck, whatever that is. ❜ ❨794❩ ❛ Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves. ❜ ❨795❩ ❛ You’re too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and thanks to that we manage to endure the burden of the past. ❜ ❨796❩ ❛ Love, no matter what else it might be, is a natural talent. You are either born knowing how, or you never know. ❜ ❨797❩ ❛ Whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life. ❜ ❨798❩ ❛ There is no God worth worrying about. ❜ ❨799❩ ❛ The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love. ❜ ❨800❩ ❛ Wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good. ❜ ❨801❩ ❛ Think of love as a state of grace, not the means to anything, but the very end in itself. ❜ ❨802❩ ❛ Only God knows how much I love you. ❜ ❨803❩ ❛ There is no greater glory than to die for love. ❜ ❨804❩ ❛ Nothing resembles a person as much as the way he dies. ❜ ❨805❩ ❛ Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don't last your whole life. ❜ ❨806❩ ❛ Today, when I saw you, I realised that what is between us is nothing more than an illusion. ❜ ❨807❩ ❛ I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century. ❜ ❨808❩ ❛ I want to be myself again, to recover all that I was obliged to give up. ❜ ❨809❩ ❛ The only thing worse than bad health is a bad name. ❜ ❨810❩ ❛ This soup tastes like windows. ❜ ❨811❩ ❛ Why do you insist on talking about what does not exist? ❜ ❨812❩ ❛ One has to live a long time to know a man's true nature. ❜ ❨813❩ ❛ No, not rich, I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing. ❜ ❨814❩ ❛ My heart has more rooms than a whorehouse. ❜ ❨815❩ ❛ That may be the reason he does so many things, so that he will not have to think. ❜ ❨816❩ ❛ Love if it exists, is something separate: another life. ❜ ❨817❩ ❛ Things did not go as badly for me as they would for you. ❜ ❨818❩ ❛ There are things you do only for love. ❜ ❨819❩ ❛ I’ll have plenty of time to rest when I die. ❜ ❨820❩ ❛ There is no innocence more dangerous than the innocence of age. ❜ ❨821❩ ❛ You treat me as if I were just anybody. ❜ ❨822❩ ❛ The symptoms of love are the same as those of cholera. ❜ ❨823❩ ❛ There is no law, human or divine, that you have not ignored. ❜ ❨824❩ ❛ Why is it that I feel I've known you so many years? ❜ ❨825❩ ❛ Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. ❜ ❨826❩ ❛ It doesn't matter what you do, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. ❜ ❨827❩ ❛ We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real? ❜ ❨828❩ ❛ There must be something, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing. ❜ ❨829❩ ❛ If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn. ❜ ❨830❩ ❛ If you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore. ❜ ❨831❩ ❛ You can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. ❜ ❨832❩ ❛ It was a pleasure to burn. ❜ ❨833❩ ❛ I'm antisocial, they say. I don't mix. It's so strange. I'm very social indeed. It all depends on what you mean by social, doesn't it? ❜ ❨834❩ ❛ Being with people is nice. But I don't think it's social to get a bunch of people together and then not let them talk, do you? ❜ ❨835❩ ❛ Do you notice how people hurt each other nowadays? ❜ ❨836❩ ❛ Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man? ❜ ❨837❩ ❛ I don't talk things. I talk the meaning of things. ❜ ❨838❩ ❛ I'll hold on to the world tight some day. I've got one finger on it now; that's a beginning. ❜ ❨839❩ ❛ I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough it'll make sense. ❜ ❨840❩ ❛ That's the good part of dying; when you've nothing to lose, you run any risk you want. ❜ ❨841❩ ❛ Someday we'll build the biggest goddamn steamshovel in history and dig the biggest grave of all time and shove war in it and cover it up. ❜ ❨842❩ ❛ You're not like the others. I've seen a few; I know. When I talk, you look at me. ❜ ❨843❩ ❛ You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by. ❜ ❨844❩ ❛ When they give you lined paper, write the other way. ❜ ❨845❩ ❛ The sun burnt every day. It burnt time. ❜ ❨846❩ ❛ We have everything we need to be happy but we aren't happy. Something is missing. ❜ ❨847❩ ❛ I feel I'm doing what I should've done a lifetime ago. ❜ ❨848❩ ❛ I'm not afraid. Maybe it's because I'm doing the right thing at last. Maybe it's because I've done a rash thing and don't want to look the coward to you. ❜ ❨849❩ ❛ Good God, who were those men? I never saw them before in my life! ❜ ❨850❩ ❛ How do you get so empty? Who takes it out of you? ❜ ❨851❩ ❛ It must be right. It seems so right. ❜ ❨852❩ ❛ To everything there is a season. Yes. A time to break down, and a time to build up. A time to keep silence and a time to speak. ❜ ❨853❩ ❛ It's my game. And no one can help me. Not even you. ❜ ❨854❩ ❛ What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven. Earth is earth. Dead is dead. You’ll find out for yourself soon enough. ❜ ❨855❩ ❛ Death is a long process. Your body is just the first part of you that croaks. Beyond that, your dreams have to die. Then your expectations. Your anger and memories must die. Your ego. Your pride and shame and ambition and hope. ❜ ❨856❩ ❛ Help me give up my addiction to hope. ❜ ❨857❩ ❛ Life is short, death is forever. ❜ ❨858❩ ❛ Hope is something really tough and tenacious you have to give up. It’s an addiction to break. ❜ ❨859❩ ❛ If the living are haunted by the dead, then the dead are haunted by their own mistakes. ❜ ❨860❩ ❛ We all wish to be pursued. We all long to be desired. ❜ ❨861❩ ❛ All the demons of hell formerly reigned as gods in previous cultures. No it's not fair, but one man's god is another man's devil. ❜ ❨862❩ ❛ I can become someone else, not out of pressure and desperation, but merely because a new life sounds fun or interesting or joyful. ❜ ❨863❩ ❛ It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities. ❜ ❨864❩ ❛ You fucked up. Game over. So just relax. ❜ ❨865❩ ❛ The greatest weapon any warrior can carry into battle is absolute certainty of her eternal soul. ❜ ❨866❩ ❛ If killing you will end my existence as well, be it. Small loss. Such a life, as your puppet, is not worth living. ❜ ❨867❩ ❛ I might be a touch of a sadist and a little bit jejune but at least I'm not a victim, not any longer. I hope. ❜ ❨868❩ ❛ Dying seems like the greatest weakness, and in a world where people say you're lazy for not shaving your legs, then being dead seems like the ultimate character flaw. ❜ ❨869❩ ❛ Any concept of right versus wrong, is merely a cultural construct relative to one specific time and place. ❜ ❨870❩ ❛ To prove that I exist I must kill you. ❜ ❨871❩ ❛ I'd say that my life has been a way-too-long case history of chasing rainbows. ❜ ❨872❩ ❛ The world is a battle for attention, a war to be heard. ❜ ❨873❩ ❛ Every garden looks beautiful in May. ❜ ❨874❩ ❛ When we neglect to fear such brittle monstrosity, we render it powerless. ❜ ❨875❩ ❛ My taste for power continues to grow, as does my ability to accrue it. ❜ ❨876❩ ❛ Such language! Why don't you just take a dump in my ears? ❜ ❨877❩ ❛ You’d be foolish to count on people displaying high standards of honesty. ❜ ❨878❩ ❛ Depending on her mood, she can be more frightening than any demon or devil you might ever run across. ❜ ❨879❩ ❛ Cross your fingers! Maybe death won't happen to you. ❜ ❨880❩ ❛ Do not die while wearing cheap shoes. ❜ ❨881❩ ❛ Old habits die hard. ❜ ❨882❩ ❛ It's our attachments to a fixed identity that torture us. ❜ ❨883❩ ❛ What do I think I am? In a thousand words; I don't have a clue. ❨884❩ ❛ If I am to be saved it is because your love redeems me. ❜ ❨885❩ ❛ All I wanted was to be loved for myself. ❜ ❨886❩ ❛ I have tasted all the happiness the world can offer. ❜ ❨887❩ ❛ Shall we pity him? Shall we curse him? ❜ ❨888❩ ❛ You have a heart that can hold the entire empire of the world. ❜ ❨889❩ ❛ Look, I am not laughing now, crying, crying for you. ❜ ❨890❩ ❛ Tonight I gave you my soul, and I am dead. ❜ ❨891❩ ❛ You are afraid of me! And yet I am not really wicked. Love me and you shall see! ❜ ❨892❩ ❛ Are people so unhappy when they love? --- Yes, when they love and are not sure of being loved. ❜ ❨893❩ ❛ Your soul is a beautiful thing. No emperor received so fair a gift. The angels wept tonight. ❜ ❨894❩ ❛ Blood!...Blood!... That's a good thing! ❜ ❨895❩ ❛ Now I want to live like everybody else. I want to have a life like everybody else. ❜ ❨896❩ ❛ You will be the happiest of women. And we will sing, all by ourselves, till we swoon away with delight. ❜ ❨897❩ ❛ I should be as gentle as a lamb; and you could do anything with me that you pleased. ❜ ❨898❩ ❛ I am going to die of love, I am dying of love. That's how it is. I loved you so. I still love you so. ❜ ❨899❩ ❛ I am dying of love for her, I tell you! If only you knew how beautiful she was when she let me kiss her. ❜ ❨900❩ ❛ He fills me with horror but I do not hate him. How can I hate him? ❜ ❨901❩ ❛ Holy angel, in Heaven blessed, my spirit longs with thee to rest. ❜ ❨902❩ ❛ Nothing is colder or more dead than my heart. ❜ ❨903❩ ❛ I had loved an angel and now I despise a woman. ❜ ❨904❩ ❛ Our lives are one masked ball. ❜ ❨905❩ ❛ Why do you condemn a man whom you have never met, whom no one knows and about whom even you yourself know nothing? ❜ ❨906❩ ❛ He would commit murder for me. ❜ ❨907❩ ❛ If I don't save her from the hands of that humbug, she is lost. But I shall save her. ❜ ❨908❩ ❛ We will go from here together or die together. ❜ ❨909❩ ❛ Your fear, your terror, all of that is just love and love of the most exquisite kind, the kind which people do not admit even to themselves. The kind that gives you a thrill, when you think of it. ❜ ❨910❩ ❛ Destiny has chained you to me forever. ❜ ❨911❩ ❛ You must never ask me that. ❜ ❨912❩ ❛ Are you afraid that you will change your mind? ❜ ❨913❩ ❛ You must come and fetch me in my dressing room at midnight exactly. ❜ ❨914❩ ❛ The holes in your life are permanent. You have to grow around them, like tree roots around concrete; you mould yourself through the gaps. ❜ ❨915❩ ❛ I have never understood how people can blithely disregard the damage they do by following their hearts. ❜ ❨916❩ ❛ There’s something comforting about the sight of strangers safe at home. ❜ ❨917❩ ❛ I have lost control over everything, even the places in my head. ❜ ❨918❩ ❛ It’s possible to miss what you’ve never had, to even mourn for it. ❜ ❨919❩ ❛ There’s nothing so painful, so corrosive, as suspicion. ❜ ❨920❩ ❛ When did you become so weak? ❜ ❨921❩ ❛ I don’t know where that strength went, I don’t remember losing it. I think that over time it got chipped away, bit by bit, by life, by the living of it. ❜ ❨922❩ ❛ Let’s be honest: women are still only really valued for two things—their looks and their role as mothers. ❜ ❨923❩ ❛ Sadness gets boring after a while, for the sad person and for everyone around them. ❜ ❨924❩ ❛ I’m playing at real life instead of actually living it. ❜ ❨925❩ ❛ I’ve just got to let myself feel the pain, because if I don’t, if I keep numbing it, it’ll never really go away. ❜ ❨926❩ ❛ I am not the girl I used to be. I am no longer desirable, I’m off-putting in some way. It’s as if people can see the damage written all over me, can see it in my face, the way I hold myself, the way I move. ❜ ❨927❩ ❛ Who was it that said following your heart is a good thing? It is pure egotism, a selfishness to conquer all. ❜ ❨928❩ ❛ It’s impossible to resist the kindness of strangers. ❜ ❨929❩ ❛ Sometimes I catch myself trying to remember the last time I had meaningful physical contact with another person, just a hug or a heartfelt squeeze of my hand, and my heart twitches. ❜ ❨930❩ ❛ I have to find a way of making myself happy, I have to stop looking for happiness elsewhere. ❜ ❨931❩ ❛ How did I find myself here? I wonder where it started, my decline; I wonder at what point I could have halted it. Where did I take the wrong turn? ❜ ❨932❩ ❛ Now look -- Now look what you made me do. ❜ ❨933❩ ❛ It’s okay, whatever you did, whatever you’ve done: you suffered, you hurt, you deserve forgiveness. ❜ ❨934❩ ❛ They’re what I lost, they’re everything I want to be. ❜ ❨935❩ ❛ You broke me and I broke us. ❜ ❨936❩ ❛ I’ve been the fool. If he does it with you, he’ll do it to you. ❜ ❨937❩ ❛ I’d never realised, not until now, how shameful it is to be pitied. ❜ ❨938❩ ❛ Sometimes, I don’t want to go anywhere, I think I’ll be happy if I never have to set foot outside the house again. ❜ ❨939❩ ❛ I don’t believe in soul mates, but there’s an understanding between us that I just haven’t felt before, or at least, not for a long time. ❜ ❨940❩ ❛ There can be no greater agony, nothing can be more painful than the not knowing, which will never end. ❜ ❨941❩ ❛ Being the other woman is a huge turn-on, there’s no point in denying it: you’re the one he can’t help but betray his wife for, even though he loves her. That’s just how irresistible you are. ❜ ❨942❩ ❛ I feel a rush of gratitude so strong, it feels almost like love. ❜ ❨943❩ ❛ You don’t know how determined I can be. Once I’ve made my mind up, I’m a force to be reckoned with. ❜ ❨944❩ ❛ The more I want to be oblivious, the less I can be. Life and light will not let me be. ❜ ❨945❩ ❛ You don’t have to be afraid of being alone. It’s not the worst thing, is it? ❜ ❨946❩ ❛ I have felt this way before. On a larger scale, to a more intense degree, of course, but I remember the quality of the pain. You don’t forget it. ❜ ❨947❩ ❛ If he thinks I’m going to sit around crying, he’s got another thing coming. ❜ ❨948❩ ❛ I don’t like to lose. It’s not like me. None of this is like me. I don’t get rejected. I’m the one who walks away. ❜ ❨949❩ ❛ I don’t remember anger, raging fury. I remember fear. ❜ ❨950❩ ❛ I can’t sleep. I haven’t slept in days. I hate it, hate insomnia more than anything, just lying there, brain going round, tick, tick, tick, tick. ❜ ❨951❩ ❛ Maybe the courage I need has nothing to do with telling the truth and everything to do with walking away. ❜ ❨952❩ ❛ I’m not beautiful, and I can’t have kids, so what does that make me? Worthless. ❜ ❨953❩ ❛ Failure cloaked me like a mantle, it overwhelmed me, dragged me under and I gave up hope. ❜ ❨954❩ ❛ It’s an odd thing to say, but I think this all the time; I don’t feel bad enough. ❜ ❨955❩ ❛ Some battles aren’t worth fighting. ❜ ❨956❩ ❛ I never felt guilty. I pretended I did. I had to. ❜ ❨957❩ ❛ I never meant for any of this to happen, we fell in love, what could we do? ❜ ❨958❩ ❛ What bothers me most is that I haven’t got to the end of my story, and I can’t start over with someone else, it’s too hard. ❜ ❨959❩ ❛ A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended. ❜ ❨960❩ ❛ It isn’t only wickedness and scheming that make people unhappy, it is confusion and misunderstanding. ❜ ❨961❩ ❛ Falling in love can be achieved in a single word—a glance. ❜ ❨962❩ ❛ Though you think the world is at your feet, it can rise up and tread on you. ❜ ❨963❩ ❛ I’ve never had a moment’s doubt. I love you. I believe in you completely. You are my dearest one. My reason for life. ❜ ❨964❩ ❛ It might hurt, it is horribly inconvenient, no good might come of it, but it is what it is to be in love. ❜ ❨965❩ ❛ It was always an impossible task, and that was precisely the point. ❜ ❨966❩ ❛ Come back, come back to me. ❜ ❨967❩ ❛ In my thoughts I make love to you all day long. ❜ ❨968❩ ❛ The truth is I feel rather light headed and foolish in your presence and I don’t think I can blame the heat. ❜ ❨969❩ ❛ Beauty occupies a narrow band. Ugliness, on the other hand, has infinite variation. ❜ ❨970❩ ❛ Is there any meaning in my life that the inevitable death awaiting me does not destroy? ❜ ❨971❩ ❛ However, withered, I still feel myself to be exactly the same person I’ve always been. ❜ ❨972❩ ❛ Hate is a feeling as pure as love, but dispassionate and icily rational. ❜ ❨973❩ ❛ I’m going mad. Let me not be mad. ❜ ❨974❩ ❛ Is everyone really as alive as I am? ❜ ❨975❩ ❛ Every now and then, quite unintentionally, someone teaches you something about yourself. ❜ ❨976❩ ❛ Something has happened, hasn’t it? ❜ ❨977❩ ❛ I like to think that it isn’t weakness or evasion, but a final act of kindness. ❜ ❨978❩ ❛ Is it possible that I am, in the modern term, in denial? ❜ ❨979❩ ❛ How could anyone presume to know the world through the eyes of an insect? ❜ ❨980❩ ❛ Not everything has a cause. Some things are simply so. ❜ ❨981❩ ❛ I’ll be quite honest with you. I’m torn between breaking your neck here and throwing you down the stairs. ❜ ❨982❩ ❛ How old do you have to be before you know the difference between right and wrong? ❜ ❨983❩ ❛ It was never meant to be read. ❜ ❨984❩ ❛ If I fell in the river, would you save me? ❜ ❨985❩ ❛ That was an incredibly bloody stupid thing to do. ❜ ❨986❩ ❛ I want to thank you for saving my life. I’ll be eternally grateful to you. ❜ ❨987❩ ❛ I’m very, very sorry for the terrible distress that I have caused. I’m very, very sorry. ❜ ❨988❩ ❛ Don’t call me that! – Please don’t call me that. ❜ ❨989❩ ❛ It may be the wrong decision, but fuck it, it’s mine. ❜ ❨990❩ ❛ Like patience, passion comes from the same Latin root: pati. It does not mean to flow with exuberance. It means to suffer. ❜ ❨991❩ ❛ No one ever really gets used to nightmares. ❜ ❨992❩ ❛ I still get nightmares. In fact, I get them so often I should be used to them by now. I’m not. ❜ ❨993❩ ❛ Sublime is something you choke on after a shot of tequila. ❜ ❨994❩ ❛ Some people reflect light, some deflect it, you by some miracle, seem to collect it. ❜ ❨995❩ ❛ Beautiful women are always drawn to men they think will keep them beautiful. ❜ ❨996❩ ❛ The ruminations are mine, let the world be yours. ❜ ❨997❩ ❛ You will fulfil a promise I made years ago but failed to keep. ❜ ❨998❩ ❛ Darkness never satisfies. Especially if it takes something away which it almost always invariably does. ❜ ❨999❩ ❛ I want something else. I’m not even sure what to call it anymore. ❜ ❨1000❩ ❛ What can I say, I’m a sucker for abandoned stuff, misplaced stuff, forgotten stuff, any old stuff. ❜ ❨1001❩ ❛ Is it possible to love something so much, you imagine it wants to destroy you only because it has denied you? ❜ ❨1002❩ ❛ It’s just silent, no sound at all. It’s like something’s waiting. ❜ ❨1003❩ ❛ I guess I’m hoping the weapons will make me feel better, grant me some kind of fucking control. ❜ ❨1004❩ ❛ Oh and something else: – Fuck you. ❜ ❨1005❩ ❛ God I’ve never been afraid like this. ❜ ❨1006❩ ❛ I miss you. I love you. There’s no second I’ve lived that you can’t call your own. ❜ ❨1007❩ ❛ I’m so tired. Sleep’s been stalking me for too long to remember. Inevitable I suppose. ❜ ❨1008❩ ❛ Not seeing the rip doesn’t mean you automatically get to keep clear of the Hey-I’m-Bleeding part. ❜ ❨1009❩ ❛ These days fantasies flourish and die like summer flies. ❜ ❨1010❩ ❛ Yeah I know, I know. This shit’s getting ridiculous. ❜ ❨1011❩ ❛ ‘Fuck’ and 'fall for’ have very different meanings. The first one you do as much as you can. The second one you never ever, ever do. ❜ ❨1012❩ ❛ It’s a nice idea but it reeks of hope. False hope. ❜ ❨1013❩ ❛ It’s, well…one thing in two words: fucked up…very fucked up. Okay three words, four words, who the hell cares…very very fucked up. ❜ ❨1014❩ ❛ Do you think I could spend the night at your place?  ❜ ❨1015❩ ❛ Any fool can pray. ❜ ❨1016❩ ❛ I feel like I haven’t slept in months. My neighbours are scared of me. ❜ ❨1017❩ ❛ I’ve lost my mind? Maybe, maybe, maybe. Maybe I’m just really drunk. ❜ ❨1018❩ ❛ Perhaps by cleaning out my system I’ll come to a clearing where I can ease myself into peace. ❜ ❨1019❩ ❛ I should be dead. Why am I still here? ❜ ❨1020❩ ❛ Fuck if I know. Your guess is as good as mine. ❜ ❨1021❩ ❛ You are my flesh. You are my bones. I know you too well. I read you too perfectly. ❜ ❨1022❩ ❛ Not all complex problems have easy solutions. ❜ ❨1023❩ ❛ Do you believe in God? I don’t think I ever asked you that one. ❜ ❨1024❩ ❛ We all create stories to protect ourselves. ❜ ❨1025❩ ❛ Are you kidding me? This place is scary. ❜ ❨1026❩ ❛ These days the only thing that gets me outside is when I say: Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck you. Fuck me. Fuck this. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. ❜ ❨1027❩ ❛ You like that crap because it reminds you of you. ❜ ❨1028❩ ❛ You may suddenly realise things are not how you perceived them to be at all. ❜ ❨1029❩ ❛ The two hardest tests are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter. ❜ ❨1030❩ ❛ People never learn anything by being told, they have to find out for themselves. ❜ ❨1031❩ ❛ Be crazy! But learn how to be crazy without being the center of attention. Be brave enough to live different. ❜ ❨1032❩ ❛ You are someone who is different, but who wants to be the same as everyone else. And that in my view is a serious illness. ❜ ❨1033❩ ❛ God chose you to be different. ❜ ❨1034❩ ❛ Why are you disappointing God with this kind of attitude? ❜ ❨1035❩ ❛ You have two choices, to control your mind or to let your mind control you. ❜ ❨1036❩ ❛ Everyone is indeed crazy, but the craziest are the ones who don't know they're crazy; they just keep repeating what others tell them to. ❜ ❨1037❩ ❛ Haven't you learned anything, not even with the approach of death?  ❜ ❨1038❩ ❛ If people don't like it, they can complain. And if they don't have the courage to complain, that's their problem. ❜ ❨1039❩ ❛ Nothing in this world happens by chance. ❜ ❨1040❩ ❛ I want to continue living my life the way I dream it, and not the way the other people want it to be. ❜ ❨1041❩ ❛ Be like the fountain that overflows, not like the cistern that merely contains. ❜ ❨1042❩ ❛ Collective madness is called sanity. ❜ ❨1043❩ ❛ Consider each day a miracle - which indeed it is, when you consider the number of unexpected things that could happen in each second of our fragile existences. ❜ ❨1044❩ ❛ You say they create their own reality, but what is reality? ❜ ❨1045❩ ❛ Many people don't allow themselves to love because there are a lot of things at risk. A lot of future and a lot of past. ❜ ❨1046❩ ❛ Death frees from the fear of dying. ❜ ❨1047❩ ❛ The danger of an adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort. ❜ ❨1048❩ ❛ The happier people can be, the unhappier they are. ❜ ❨1049❩ ❛ Life is always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act. ❜ ❨1050❩ ❛ It's best to accept life as it really is and not as you imagined it to be. ❜ ❨1051❩ ❛ You don't seem mad at all. ❜ ❨1052❩ ❛ We’re allowed to make a lot of mistakes in our lives, except the mistake that destroys us. ❜ ❨1053❩ ❛ You’re what you are, not what others make of you. ❜ ❨1054❩ ❛ Am I cured? ❜ ❨1055❩ ❛ Real love changes and grows with time and discovers new ways of expressing itself. ❜ ❨1056❩ ❛ A lot of people think something is right, and so that thing becomes right. Is that it? ❜ ❨1057❩ ❛ They think they're normal, because they all do the same thing. ❜ ❨1058❩ ❛ I didn't know that other ‘me’s existed inside me, ‘Me’s that I could love. ❜ ❨1059❩ ❛ I have no idea what's awaiting me. ❜ ❨1060❩ ❛ What will happen when this all ends? ❜ ❨1061❩ ❛ I know that you are capable of great deeds. ❜ ❨1062❩ ❛ A loveless world is a dead world, and always there comes an hour when one is weary of prisons, of one's work, and of devotion to duty, and all one craves for is a loved face, the warmth and wonder of a loving heart. ❜ ❨1063❩ ❛ The truth is that everyone is bored. ❜ ❨1064❩ ❛ I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints. Heroism and sanctity don't really appeal to me, I imagine. ❜ ❨1065❩ ❛ If there is one thing one can always yearn for, and sometimes attain, it is human love. ❜ ❨1066❩ ❛ Who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for even a single moment's suffering? ❜ ❨1067❩ ❛ It's not easy. I've been thinking it over for years. ❜ ❨1068❩ ❛ While we loved each other we didn't need words to make ourselves understood. ❜ ❨1069❩ ❛ People are more often bad than good. ❜ ❨1070❩ ❛ I don't believe in heroism; I know it's easy and I've learned that it can be murderous. ❜ ❨1071❩ ❛ What interests me is living and dying for what one loves. ❜ ❨1072❩ ❛ In fact, nobody is capable of really thinking about anyone, even in the worst calamity. ❜ ❨1073❩ ❛ Nothing in the world is worth turning one's back on what one loves. ❜ ❨1074❩ ❛ Again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. ❜ ❨1075❩ ❛ There are more things to admire in men then to despise. ❜ ❨1076❩ ❛ It is in the thick of calamity that one gets hardened to the truth - in other words, to silence. ❜ ❨1077❩ ❛ What on earth prompted you to take a hand in this? ❜ ❨1078❩ ❛ Your code of morals? What code, if I may ask? ❜ ❨1079❩ ❛ I'm fumbling in the dark, struggling to make something out. But I've long ceased finding anything. ❜ ❨1080❩ ❛ No doubt our love is still there, but quite simply it is unusable, heavy to carry, inert inside of us, sterile as crime or condemnation. ❜ ❨1081❩ ❛ I’m not happy to go, but one needn't be happy to make another start. ❜ ❨1082❩ ❛ I am incapable of suffering for a long time, or being happy for a long time. Which means that I am incapable of anything really worth while. ❜ ❨1083❩ ❛ I should have found the words to keep her with me. ❜ ❨1084❩ ❛ We can't stir a finger in this world without the risk of bringing death to somebody. ❜ ❨1085❩ ❛ The evil that is in the world comes out of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding. ❜ ❨1086❩ ❛ There are always flies and itches. That’s why life is difficult to live. ❜ ❨1087❩ ❛ The best protection against anything is a good bottle of wine. ❜ ❨1088❩ ❛ There is no peace without hope. ❜ ❨1089❩ ❛ It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment. ❜ ❨1090❩ ❛ There is always something left to love. ❜ ❨1091❩ ❛ A person doesn’t die when he should but when he can. ❜ ❨1092❩ ❛ Things have a life of their own. It's simply a matter of waking up their souls. ❜ ❨1093❩ ❛ Tell me something: why are you fighting? ❜ ❨1094❩ ❛ I've come to realise only just now that I'm fighting because of pride. ❜ ❨1095❩ ❛ One minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship. ❜ ❨1096❩ ❛ It's better than not knowing why you're fighting. Or fighting, like you, for something that doesn't have any meaning for anyone. ❜ ❨1097❩ ❛ Holy Mother of God! ❜ ❨1098❩ ❛ A person does not belong to a place until there is someone dead under the ground. ❜ ❨1099❩ ❛ I was born a son of a bitch and I'm going to die a son of a bitch. ❜ ❨1100❩ ❛ Bad luck doesn't have any chinks in it. ❜ ❨1101❩ ❛ I plead youth as a mitigating circumstance. ❜ ❨1102❩ ❛ Get those bad thoughts out of your head. You're going to be happy. ❜ ❨1103❩ ❛ Children inherit their parents' madness. ❜ ❨1104❩ ❛ I'll turn to ashes in here but I won't give this miserable town the pleasure of seeing me weep. ❜ ❨1105❩ ❛ You would be good in a war. Where you put your eye, you put your bullet. ❜ ❨1106❩ ❛ Men demand much more than you think. ❜ ❨1107❩ ❛ Even the craziest and most persistent love is just a temporary truth. ❜ ❨1108❩ ❛ If we’re alone you can whisper in my ear any crap you can think of. ❜ ❨1109❩ ❛ You have taken this horrible game very seriously and you have done well because you are doing your duty. ❜ ❨1110❩ ❛ We have the right to pull down your pants and give you a whipping at the first sign of disrespect. ❜ ❨1111❩ ❛ What worries me is not your shooting me, because after all, for people like us it's a natural death. ❜ ❨1112❩ ❛ What worries me is that you've ended up as bad as they are. ❜ ❨1113❩ ❛ It is characteristic of men to deny hunger once their appetites are satisfied. ❜ ❨1114❩ ❛ Dying is much more difficult than one imagines. ❜ ❨1115❩ ❛ If you have to go crazy, please go crazy all by yourself! ❜ ❨1116❩ ❛ We have still not had a death. ❜ ❨1117❩ ❛ How awful, the way time passes. ❜ ❨1118❩ ❛ You may be in command of your war, but I'm in command of my house. ❜ ❨1119❩ ❛ I missed you every hour. ❜ ❨1120❩ ❛ You know what the worst part was? It caught me completely by surprise. ❜ ❨1121❩ ❛ I’ve risked my life for you. ❜ ❨1122❩ ❛ The problem with wanting is that it makes us weak. ❜ ❨1123❩ ❛ I love you, even the part of you that loved him. ❜ ❨1124❩ ❛ I’m sorry it took me so long to see you. ❜ ❨1125❩ ❛ I never really belonged anywhere. ❜ ❨1126❩ ❛ Thanks for being my best friend and making my life bearable.  ❜ ❨1127❩ ❛ Thanks for finding me. ❜ ❨1128❩ ❛ You and I are going to change the world. ❜ ❨1129❩ ❛ I’ve been waiting for you a long time. ❜ ❨1130❩ ❛ I’m not used to people trying to kill me. ❜ ❨1131❩ ❛ You’re shaking. ❜ ❨1132❩ ❛ There's nothing wrong with being a lizard. Unless you were born to be a hawk. ❜ ❨1133❩ ❛ Make me your villain. ❜ ❨1134❩ ❛ Just you and me. It’s always just you and me. ❜ ❨1135❩ ❛ Do you blame me for every mistake I made? For every dumb thing I’ve said? ❜ ❨1136❩ ❛ Well, if it gets too bad, give me a signal. ❜ ❨1137❩ ❛ Did you tell him what I showed you in the dark? ❜ ❨1138❩ ❛ Did you miss me when you were gone? ❜ ❨1139❩ ❛ What is infinite? The universe and the greed of men. ❜ ❨1140❩ ❛ You’re interfering with my plan. ❜ ❨1141❩ ❛ Too much champagne? ❜ ❨1142❩ ❛ I hope you don’t expect fairness from me. It isn’t one of my specialties. ❜ ❨1143❩ ❛ There is something more powerful than any army. Something strong enough to topple kings. Faith. ❜ ❨1144❩ ❛ All you said was that I had to kill you. You didn’t say how. ❜ ❨1145❩ ❛ What is she? She’s everything, you dumb son of a bitch. ❜ ❨1146❩ ❛ She’s an ugly little thing. No child should look like that. Pale and sour, like a glass of milk that’s turned. ❜ ❨1147❩ ❛ I wouldn’t make that mistake again. ❜ ❨1148❩ ❛ It’s a great honor, to save a life. You saved many. ❜ ❨1149❩ ❛ In this world, there are things you can only do alone. ❜ ❨1150❩ ❛ What seems like a reasonable distance to one person might feel too far to somebody else. ❜ ❨1151❩ ❛ If you really want to know something, you have to be willing to pay the price. ❜ ❨1152❩ ❛ Why should you be interested in me? ❜ ❨1153❩ ❛ I have been told I've got a darkish personality. A few times. ❜ ❨1154❩ ❛ It's not as if our lives are divided simply into light and dark. There's shadowy middle ground. ❜ ❨1155❩ ❛ I'll write to you. A super-long letter, like in an old-fashioned novel. ❜ ❨1156❩ ❛ The spotlight doesn't suit me. I'm more of a side dish. ❜ ❨1157❩ ❛ The ground we stand on looks solid enough, but if something happens it can drop right out from under you.  ❜ ❨1158❩ ❛ So once you're dead there's just nothing? ❜ ❨1159❩ ❛ If only I could fall sound asleep and wake up in my old reality. ❜ ❨1160❩ ❛ Is action merely the incidental product of thought, or is thought the consequential product of action? ❜ ❨1161❩ ❛ Nobody can shake off their own shadow. ❜ ❨1162❩ ❛ The silence is so deep it hurts. ❜ ❨1163❩ ❛ I may not look it, but I can be a very patient guy. ❜ ❨1164❩ ❛ Killing time is one of my specialities. ❜ ❨1165❩ ❛ You can't fight it. ❜ ❨1166❩ ❛ Tell me something,—do you believe in reincarnation? ❜ ❨1167❩ ❛ I can’t understand nothingness. I can’t understand it and I can’t imagine it. ❜ ❨1168❩ ❛ I can hardly breathe, and my whole body wants to shrink into a corner.  ❜ ❨1169❩ ❛ I do have a few things wrong with me, but those are strictly problems I keep inside. ❜ ❨1170❩ ❛ I can't take it any more, I can't go on any more. ❜ ❨1171❩ ❛ You don't really have it together. ❜ ❨1172❩ ❛ Is it against the law for me to know it? ❜ ❨1173❩ ❛ I keep having the same dream. ❜ ❨1174❩ ❛ Are you asking because you really want an answer? ❜ ❨1175❩ ❛ I hate this! I don't want to be changed this way! ❜ ❨1176❩ ❛ No contradictions, no irony. They do everything according to numerical formulas. ❜ ❨1177❩ ❛ Want to hear the rest? If you’re not interested, I can stop. ❜ ❨1178❩ ❛ If I didn’t have these memories inside me, I would’ve snapped a long time ago. I would’ve curled up in a ditch somewhere and died. ❜ ❨1179❩ ❛ I don’t know what you’re feeling. I won’t even pretend. ❜ ❨1180❩ ❛ What are you doing here, honey? ❜ ❨1181❩ ❛ You're not even old enough to know how bad life gets. ❜ ❨1182❩ ❛ You don't understand me. ❜ ❨1183❩ ❛ All wisdom ends in paradox. ❜ ❨1184❩ ❛ It is love that overthrows empire. Love that binds two hearts together, come hellfire & brimstone. ❜ ❨1185❩ ❛ I have lost my gift. ❜ ❨1186❩ ❛ Winter is the season of alcoholism and despair. ❜ ❨1187❩ ❛ The seeds of death get lost in the mess that God made us. ❜ ❨1188❩ ❛ They're just memories now. It’s time to forget. ❜ ❨1189❩ ❛ The time has to be right and the heart willing. ❜ ❨1190❩ ❛ The world, a tired performer, offers us another half-assed season. ❜ ❨1191❩ ❛ Capitalism has resulted in material well-being but spiritual bankruptcy. ❜ ❨1192❩ ❛ Grief is natural, overcoming it is a matter of choice. ❜ ❨1193❩ ❛ I want out of that decorating scheme. ❜ ❨1194❩ ❛ With most people suicide is like Russian roulette. Only one chamber has a bullet. ❜ ❨1195❩ ❛ You never get over it but you get where it doesn't bother you so much. ❜ ❨1196❩ ❛ Don't waste your time on life. ❜ ❨1197❩ ❛ I'm a teenager. I've got problems! ❜ ❨1198❩ ❛ Adolescents tend to seek love where they can find it. ❜ ❨1199❩ ❛ Obviously, you've never been a thirteen-year-old girl. ❜ ❨1200❩ ❛ It was a mistake. ❜ ❨1201❩ ❛ It seemed like we were supposed to feel sorry for everything that ever happened, ever. ❜ ❨1202❩ ❛ Buffeted but not broken. ❜ ❨1203❩ ❛ Shit. What have kids got to be worried about now? ❜ ❨1204❩ ❛ If they want trouble, they should go live in Bangladesh. ❜ ❨1205❩ ❛ I can't wait until I get out of here. ❜ ❨1206❩ ❛ When she jumped she probably thought she’d fly. ❜ ❨1207❩ ❛ I do not think the patient truly meant to end her life. Her act was a cry for help. ❜ ❨1208❩ ❛ You're a stone fox. ❜ ❨1209❩ ❛ It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight. ❜ ❨1210❩ ❛ Light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. ❜ ❨1211❩ ❛ He broke my heart. You merely broke my life. ❜ ❨1212❩ ❛ I'm sorry to have deceived you so much, but that's how life is. ❜ ❨1213❩ ❛ Words without experience are meaningless. ❜ ❨1214❩ ❛ I loved you. I was a monster, but I loved you. ❜ ❨1215❩ ❛ Come just as you are. ❜ ❨1216❩ ❛ If a violin string could ache, i would be that string. ❜ ❨1217❩ ❛ Perhaps, somewhere, some day, at a less miserable time, we may see each other again. ❜ ❨1218❩ ❛ What's so dreadful about dying is that you are completely on your own. ❜ ❨1219❩ ❛ Don't touch me; I'll die if you touch me. ❜ ❨1220❩ ❛ You took advantage of my disadvantage. ❜ ❨1221❩ ❛ I walk in a maze I cannot get out of. ❜ ❨1222❩ ❛ Life is just one small piece of light between two eternal darknesses. ❜ ❨1223❩ ❛ Imagine me; I shall not exist if you do not imagine me. ❜ ❨1224❩ ❛ There is no harm in smiling. ❜ ❨1225❩ ❛ There is no point in staying here. There is no point in staying anywhere. ❜ ❨1226❩ ❛ There is nothing more atrociously cruel than an adored child. ❜ ❨1227❩ ❛ I am so tired of being cynical. ❜ ❨1228❩ ❛ Come to live with me, and die with me, and everything with me. ❜ ❨1229❩ ❛ This is the only immortality that you and I may share. ❜ ❨1230❩ ❛ I loved her more than anything I had ever seen or imagined on earth, or hoped for anywhere else. ❜ ❨1231❩ ❛ I was despicable and brutal, and turpid, and everything, mais je t’aimais, je t’aimais! ❜ ❨1232❩ ❛ Years of secret suffering has taught me superhuman self-control. ❜ ❨1233❩ ❛ Solitude is corrupting me. I need company and care. ❜ ❨1234❩ ❛ I've missed you terribly. ❜ ❨1235❩ ❛ I've been revoltingly unfaithful to you. ❜ ❨1236❩ ❛ It doesn't matter a bit, because you've stopped caring anyway. ❜ ❨1237❩ ❛ What makes you say I've stopped caring for you? ❜ ❨1238❩ ❛ Nowadays you have to be a scientist if you want to be a killer. ❜ ❨1239❩ ❛ The sun climbs high in the sky, then starts down. People come, then go. ❜ ❨1240❩ ❛ Tell me, have you ever thought of killing me? ❜ ❨1241❩ ❛ I can not believe you are the same human being. ❜ ❨1242❩ ❛ Just how urgent is it? ❜ ❨1243❩ ❛ It is time for you to be going. ❜ ❨1244❩ ❛ How is it you know something like that? ❜ ❨1245❩ ❛ I don’t mind. Your mess is my mess. ❜ ❨1246❩ ❛ Everybody has one thing they do not want to lose. ❜ ❨1247❩ ❛ I’ll be late tonight, so don’t wait up for me. ❜ ❨1248❩ ❛ Nothing I’ve tried to do by myself has ever come off. ❜ ❨1249❩ ❛ I am not catching you in the middle of anything important, am I? ❜ ❨1250❩ ❛ Some things are forgotten, some things disappear, some things die. ❜ ❨1251❩ ❛ My biggest fault is that the faults I was born with grow bigger each year. ❜ ❨1252❩ ❛ To get irritated is to lose our way in life. ❜ ❨1253❩ ❛ A friend to kill time is a friend sublime. ❜ ❨1254❩ ❛ I don't really know if it's the right thing to do. ❜ ❨1255❩ ❛ Faster cars and more cats run over? Who needs it? ❜ ❨1256❩ ❛ Most of everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories. ❜ ❨1257❩ ❛ Your fate is and will always be the fate of a dreamer. ❜ ❨1258❩ ❛ You’re loads better than you think you are. ❜ ❨1259❩ ❛ You’re only half-living, the other half is still untapped somewhere. ❜ ❨1260❩ ❛ The song is over. But the melody lingers on. ❜ ❨1261❩ ❛ You are extraordinary. ❜ ❨1262❩ ❛ We tend to fool ourselves into thinking that time is our size, but it really goes on and on. ❜ ❨1263❩ ❛ It could be five years or ten years or one month. It's all the same. ❜ ❨1264❩ ❛ I’m forever realising things too late. ❜ ❨1265❩ ❛ I’m not complaining when I say my life is boring. ❜ ❨1266❩ ❛ Weakness is something that rots in the body. ❜ ❨1267❩ ❛ Coming from your mouth, it has the ring of truth, but I doubt anyone would believe me if I told them. ❜ ❨1268❩ ❛ You can't expect something unreal to last anyway, can you? ❜ ❨1269❩ ❛ A wise man does not step betwixt the beast and his meat. ❜ ❨1270❩ ❛ So, kill me. Tell the others I attacked you so you killed me. ❜ ❨1271❩ ❛ Should never have come here. ❜ ❨1272❩ ❛ Hard to guess my tastes. ❜ ❨1273❩ ❛ Can’t it wait until the morning? ❜ ❨1274❩ ❛ You’ll find temper tantrums won’t help you here. ❜ ❨1275❩ ❛ It must have taken courage to return. ❜ ❨1276❩ ❛ It all sounds grimly dystopian. ❜ ❨1277❩ ❛ I am not afraid of you! ❜ ❨1278❩ ❛ All this could be avoided! ❜ ❨1279❩ ❛ You consider me a murderer? ❜ ❨1280❩ ❛ Gross way to die. ❜ ❨1281❩ ❛ What sparks wars? The will to power, the backbone of human nature. ❜ ❨1282❩ ❛ My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops? ❜ ❨1283❩ ❛ Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others. ❜ ❨1284❩ ❛ I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there. ❜ ❨1285❩ ❛ You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn't mean you're defective - it just means you're human. ❜ ❨1286❩ ❛ Power, time, gravity, love. The forces that really kick ass are all invisible. ❜ ❨1287❩ ❛ Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty. ❜ ❨1288❩ ❛ Truth is singular. Its 'versions' are mistruths. ❜ ❨1289❩ ❛ Dreams are all I have ever truly owned. ❜ ❨1290❩ ❛ Your version of the truth is the only thing that matters. ❜ ❨1291❩ ❛ I believe death is only a door. One closes, and another opens. ❜ ❨1292❩ ❛ By each crime and every kindness, we birth our future. ❜ ❨1293❩ ❛ The healthy can't understand the emptied, the broken. ❜ ❨1294❩ ❛ Lying's wrong, but when the world spins backwards, a small wrong may be a big right. ❜ ❨1295❩ ❛ The weak are meat the strong do eat. ❜ ❨1296❩ ❛ Do whatever you can't not do. ❜ ❨1297❩ ❛ What precipitates outcomes? Vicious acts & virtuous acts. ❜ ❨1298❩ ❛ I remain thankful to God for all his mercies. ❜ ❨1299❩ ❛ You can maintain power over people, as long as you give them something. Rob a man of everything, and that man will no longer be in your power. ❜ ❨1300❩ ❛ Power. The ability to determine another man's luck. ❜ ❨1301❩ ❛ Pain is strong, aye - but friends' eyes, more strong. ❜ ❨1302❩ ❛ Perhaps those deprived of beauty perceive it most instinctively. ❜ ❨1303❩ ❛ Why ask a question whose answer would demand ten more questions? ❜ ❨1304❩ ❛ You can’t lie to your soul. ❜ ❨1305❩ ❛ Why would I want to do a thing like that? ❜ ❨1306❩ ❛ We start off with high hopes, then we bottle it. ❜ ❨1307❩ ❛ Better to make life as complete and enjoyable an experience as possible, in case death is shite, which I suspect it will be. ❜ ❨1308❩ ❛ I’m not running away, I’m moving on. ❜ ❨1309❩ ❛ The reasons? There are no reasons. ❜ ❨1310❩ ❛ Some people are easier to love when you don’t have to be around them. ❜ ❨1311❩ ❛ Love does not exist. ❜ ❨1312❩ ❛ Fuck that ‘regrets’ bullshit. ❜ ❨1313❩ ❛ How does it make you feel? ❜ ❨1314❩ ❛ It’s horrible how we always die alone, but no worse than living alone. ❜ ❨1315❩ ❛ Choose us. Choose life. ❜ ❨1316❩ ❛ You fucking knew that fucking cunt would fuck some cunt. ❜ ❨1317❩ ❛ I’m more of a warrior than you’ll ever be. ❜ ❨1318❩ ❛ What does that make us? The lowest of the low, the scum of the earth. ❜ ❨1319❩ ❛ You don’t have to run away.  ❜ ❨1320❩ ❛ I tried to stop because it was only causing pain. I couldn’t. ❜ ❨1321❩ ❛ I’m not going to get crushed. ❜ ❨1322❩ ❛ I love doubt in a woman. It’s nearly as sexy as determination. ❜ ❨1323❩ ❛ Take your best orgasm, multiply the feeling by twenty. ❜ ❨1324❩ ❛ You’re a mess. ❜ ❨1325❩ ❛ I know that it’s never left you alone. ❜ ❨1326❩ ❛ Are you asking me or telling me? ❜ ❨1327❩ ❛ You just get used to all the shit. ❜ ❨1328❩ ❛ You can’t afford a conscience in this life. ❜ ❨1329❩ ❛ None of us are saints and scapegoats are always handy. ❜ ❨1330❩ ❛ Doing things doesn’t hurt you; you get hurt by avoiding them. ❜ ❨1331❩ ❛ What was that? ❜ ❨1332❩ ❛ Protect me from those who wish to help us. ❜ ❨1333❩ ❛ You can’t love yourself if you want to hurt things like that. ❜ ❨1334❩ ❛ What happens when people open their hearts? ❜ ❨1335❩ ❛ Nobody likes being alone that much. ❜ ❨1336❩ ❛ I don’t go out of my way to make friends, that’s all. It just leads to disappointment.” ❨1337❩ ❛ Don’t feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that. ❜ ❨1338❩ ❛ You need to grab whatever chance you have of happiness where you find it, and not worry about other people too much. ❜ ❨1339❩ ❛ I want you always to remember me. ❜ ❨1340❩ ❛ Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it’s time for them to be hurt. ❜ ❨1341❩ ❛ What stays in your heart will stay; keep them, and what vanishes will vanish. ❜ ❨1342❩ ❛ All I want in this world is you. ❜ ❨1343❩ ❛ I want the two of us to begin everything from the beginning. ❜ ❨1344❩ ❛ No truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. ❜ ❨1345❩ ❛ What a terrible thing it is to wound someone you really care for and to do it so unconsciously. ❜ ❨1346❩ ❛ If you’re in pitch blackness, all you can do is sit tight until your eyes get used to the dark. ❜ ❨1347❩ ❛ I’ve had enough hurt already in my life. More than enough. Now I want to be happy. ❜ ❨1348❩ ❛ People leave strange little memories of themselves behind when they die. ❜ ❨1349❩ ❛ Stop eating yourself up alive. Things will go where they’re supposed to go if you just let them take their natural course. ❜ ❨1350❩ ❛ When your feelings build up and harden and die inside, then you’re in big trouble. ❜ ❨1351❩ ❛ When you fall in love, the natural thing to do is give yourself to it. ❜ ❨1352❩ ❛ If I have left a wound inside you, it is not just your wound but mine as well. ❜ ❨1353❩ ❛ Hey, what is it with you? Why are you so spaced out? You still haven’t answered me. ❜ ❨1354❩ ❛ People are strange when you’re a stranger. ❜ ❨1355❩ ❛ The dead will always be dead, but we have to go on living. ❜ ❨1356❩ ❛ You don’t get it, do you? ❜ ❨1357❩ ❛ I am a flawed human being - a far more flawed human being than you ❨1358❩ realise. ❜ ❨1359❩ ❛ At least let me know whether or not I hurt you. ❜ ❨1360❩ ❛ All of us are imperfect human beings living in an imperfect world. ❜ ❨1361❩ ❛ I’ve never once thought about how I was going to die. ❜ ❨1362❩ ❛ So I’m not crazy after all! ❜ ❨1363❩ ❛ I miss you terribly sometimes, but in general I go on living with all the energy I can muster. ❜ ❨1364❩ ❛ Will you wait for me forever? ❜ ❨1365❩ ❛ I don’t want our relationship to end like this. ❜ ❨1366❩ ❛ When am I going to be able to talk to you? I want you to tell me that much, at least. ❜ ❨1367❩ ❛ It hurts not being able to see you. ❜ ❨1368❩ ❛ I’m not totally mad at you. I’m just sad. ❜ ❨1369❩ ❛ The world is an inherently unfair place. ❜ ❨1370❩ ❛ Life frightens me sometimes. I don’t happen to take that as the premise for everything else though. ❜ ❨1371❩ ❛ I’m a real bargain, don’t you think? If you don’t take me, I’ll end up going somewhere else. ❜ ❨1372❩ ❛ We’re all kind of weird and twisted and drowning. ❜ ❨1373❩ ❛ Don’t you think it would be wonderful to get rid of everything and everybody and just go some place where you don’t know a soul? ❜ ❨1374❩ ❛ You’re not telling me anything I don’t know already. ❜ ❨1375❩ ❛ He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past. ❜ ❨1376❩ ❛ If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself. ❜ ❨1377❩ ❛ We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness. ❜ ❨1378❩ ❛ Until they become conscious they will never rebel. ❜ ❨1379❩ ❛ Power is not a means; it is an end. ❜ ❨1380❩ ❛ They are not interested in the good of others; they are interested solely in power, pure power. ❜ ❨1381❩ ❛ Now you begin to understand me. ❜ ❨1382❩ ❛ In the face of pain there are no heroes. ❜ ❨1383❩ ❛ Big Brother is watching you. ❜ ❨1384❩ ❛ Power is tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing. ❜ ❨1385❩ ❛ It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words. ❜ ❨1386❩ ❛ The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better. ❜ ❨1387❩ ❛ Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind. ❜ ❨1388❩ ❛ Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. ❜ ❨1389❩ ❛ We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them. ❜ ❨1390❩ ❛ How can I help it? How can I help but see what is in front of my eyes? ❜ ❨1391❩ ❛ You must try harder. ❜ ❨1392❩ ❛ Confession is not betrayal. ❜ ❨1393❩ ❛ What you say or do doesn’t matter; only feelings matter. ❜ ❨1394❩ ❛ If they could make me stop loving you —- that would be the real betrayal. ❜ ❨1395❩ ❛ Of pain you can wish only one thing: that it should stop. ❜ ❨1396❩ ❛ To die hating them, that will be freedom. ❜ ❨1397❩ ❛ No one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. ❜ ❨1398❩ ❛ What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself? ❜ ❨1399❩ ❛ To keep them in control is not difficult. ❜ ❨1400❩ ❛ So long as they are not permitted to have standards of comparison, they never even become aware that they are oppressed. ❜ ❨1401❩ ❛ The consequences of every act are included in the act itself. ❜ ❨1402❩ ❛ The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labour. ❜ ❨1403❩ ❛ Stupidity is as necessary as intelligence, and as difficult to attain. ❜ ❨1404❩ ❛ I hate purity, I hate goodness! I don’t want virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones. ❜ ❨1405❩ ❛ The past is dead, the future is unimaginable. ❜ ❨1406❩ ❛ You know the answer already. Everyone knows it. ❜ ❨1407❩ ❛ You don’t give a damn what they suffer. All you care is yourself. ❜ ❨1408❩ ❛ It is not easy to become sane. ❜ ❨1409❩ ❛ No emotion is pure anymore, because everything is mixed up with fear and hatred. ❜ ❨1410❩ ❛ They say that time heals all things —- they say you can always forget. ❜ ❨1411❩ ❛ The object of waging a war is always to be in a better position in which to wage another war. ❜ ❨1412❩ ❛ I sold you and you sold me. ❜ ❨1413❩ ❛ You do not exist. ❜ ❨1414❩ ❛ How does one man assert his power over another? By making him suffer. ❜ ❨1415❩ ❛ Obedience is not enough. Unless he is suffering, how can you be sure that he is obeying your will and not his own? ❜ ❨1416❩ ❛ Everything else we shall destroy – everything. ❜ ❨1417❩ ❛ Two and two makes five. ❜ ❨1418❩ ❛ Facts, at any rate, can not be kept hidden. ❜ ❨1419❩ ❛ The past is whatever the records and the memories agree upon. ❜ ❨1420❩ ❛ So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing. ❜ ❨1421❩ ❛ If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable—what then? ❜ ❨1422❩ ❛ The lie became the truth. ❜ ❨1423❩ ❛ It is like swimming against a current that sweeps you backwards however hard you struggle. ❜ ❨1424❩ ❛ Turn round and go with the current instead of opposing it. ❜ ❨1425❩ ❛ It’s only after we’ve lost everything that we’re free to do anything. ❜ ❨1426❩ ❛ I don’t want to die without any scars. ❜ ❨1427❩ ❛ This is your life and it’s ending one moment at a time. ❜ ❨1428❩ ❛ You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways. ❜ ❨1429❩ ❛ You are not your job, you’re not how much money you have in the bank. You are not the car you drive. You’re not the contents of your wallet. ❜ ❨1430❩ ❛ You are not special. ❜ ❨1431❩ ❛ You’re not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You’re the same decaying organic matter as everything else. ❜ ❨1432❩ ❛ The things you used to own, now they own you. ❜ ❨1433❩ ❛ Today is the sort of day where the sun only comes up to humiliate you. ❜ ❨1434❩ ❛ Maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves. ❜ ❨1435❩ ❛ Only after disaster can we be resurrected. ❜ ❨1436❩ ❛ Everything is evolving, everything is falling apart. ❜ ❨1437❩ ❛ We’ve all been raised believe that one day we’d all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won’t. ❜ ❨1438❩ ❛ Don’t you have other things to do? ❜ ❨1439❩ ❛ Prove you’re alive. If you don’t claim your humanity you will become a statistic. ❜ ❨1440❩ ❛ You have been warned. ❜ ❨1441❩ ❛ If you don’t know what you want, you end up with a lot you don’t. ❜ ❨1442❩ ❛ It’s not love or anything, but I think I like you, too. ❜ ❨1443❩ ❛ If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person? ❜ ❨1444❩ ❛ Why did I cause so much pain? ❜ ❨1445❩ ❛ The lower you fall, the higher you’ll fly. ❜ ❨1446❩ ❛ Maybe self-improvement isn’t the answer, maybe self-destruction is the answer. ❜ ❨1447❩ ❛ May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect. ❜ ❨1448❩ ❛ Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head. ❜ ❨1449❩ ❛ We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens. ❜ ❨1450❩ ❛ The girl is infectious human waste. ❜ ❨1451❩ ❛ I want to destroy everything beautiful I’ll never have. ❜ ❨1452❩ ❛ On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero. ❜ ❨1453❩ ❛ If you could be either God’s worst enemy or nothing, which would you choose? ❜ ❨1454❩ ❛ It is like you’re never really awake; but you’re never really asleep. ❜ ❨1455❩ ❛ Worker bees can leave. Even drones can fly away. The Queen is their slave. ❜ ❨1456❩ ❛ A moment is the most you could ever expect from perfection. ❜ ❨1457❩ ❛ The people you’re trying to step on, we’re everyone you depend on. ❜ ❨1458❩ ❛ You have to give up! ❜ ❨1459❩ ❛ Reject the basic assumptions of civilisation, especially the importance of material possessions. ❜ ❨1460❩ ❛ Without pain, without sacrifice we would have nothing. ❜ ❨1461❩ ❛ You have to realise that someday you will die, Until you know that, you are useless. ❜ ❨1462❩ ❛ A tiger can smile. A snake will say it loves you. ❜ ❨1463❩ ❛ Lies make us evil. ❜ ❨1464❩ ❛ If you died right now, how would you feel about your life? ❜ ❨1465❩ ❛ You always kill the one you love. ❜ ❨1466❩ ❛ Maybe we should always assume the worst. ❜ ❨1467❩ ❛ Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains. ❜ ❨1468❩ ❛ Which is worse? Hell or nothing? ❜ ❨1469❩ ❛ A minute of perfection is worth the effort. ❜ ❨1470❩ ❛ You’re going to die, tonight. You might die in one second or in one hour, you decide. ❜ ❨1471❩ ❛ Lie to me. Tell me the first thing off the top of your head. Make something up. ❜ ❨1472❩ ❛ I don’t give a shit. I have a gun. ❜ ❨1473❩ ❛ I know who you are. I know where you live. ❜ ❨1474❩ ❛ Tomorrow will be the most beautiful day of your life. ❜ ❨1475❩ ❛ My philosophy of life is that I can die at any moment. And the tragedy of my life is that I do not. ❜ ❨1476❩ ❛ Everything is so far away, a copy of a copy of a copy. You can’t touch anything and nothing can touch you. ❜ ❨1477❩ ❛ There are a lot of things we don’t want to know about the people we love. ❜ ❨1478❩ ❛ We just had a near-life experience. ❜ ❨1479❩ ❛ If people think you are dying, they give you their full attention. They listen instead of just waiting for their turn to speak. ❜ ❨1480❩ ❛ I am nothing, and not even that. ❜ ❨1481❩ ❛ This isn’t really death. —- We’ll be legends. We won’t grow old. ❜ ❨1482❩ ❛ Stop trying to control everything and just let go. Let go. ❜ ❨1483❩ ❛ The amazing miracle of death, when one second you’re walking and talking, and the next second you’re an object. ❜ ❨1484❩ ❛ Only if we’re caught and punished can we be saved. ❜ ❨1485❩ ❛ I never thought about how important the sky was until I didn't have one. ❜ ❨1486❩ ❛ Dreams are like that: they go in and out of memories and scenes, but they're never real. They're never real, and I hate them because they aren't. ❜ ❨1487❩ ❛ Power isn’t control at all — power is strength, and giving that strength to others. ❜ ❨1488❩ ❛ A leader isn’t someone who forces others to make him stronger. ❜ ❨1489❩ ❛ A leader is someone willing to give his strength to others that they may have the strength to stand on their own. ❜ ❨1490❩ ❛ In the end, we are alone. ❜ ❨1491❩ ❛ It is like a piece of my soul is lost, empty. ❜ ❨1492❩ ❛ If my life on Earth must end, let it end with a promise. Let it end with hope. ❜ ❨1493❩ ❛ Sorry? Sorry isn't enough. ❜ ❨1494❩ ❛ Every single thing I ever loved is beyond my reach now. Everything I ever wanted. Everything I ever was. ❜ ❨1495❩ ❛ Will you stay with me? ❜ ❨1496❩ ❛ A leader doesn't make pawns - he makes people. ❜ ❨1497❩ ❛ Do you hear that? The pulse of life from your heart, the slow in-and-out from your lungs? Even when you are silent, even when you block out all noise, your body is still a cacophony of life. Mine is not. ❜ ❨1498❩ ❛ It is the silence that drives me mad. The silence that drives the nightmares to me. ❜ ❨1499❩ ❛ There is nothing between us but rain. There is nothing between us at all. ❜ ❨1500❩ ❛ I like a little chaos. ❜

[technology745]

The Only Guide for Technology

The Of Technology

From Internet of Behaviours to Hyperautomation, right here are some of the top innovation patterns for 2021 everybody must obtain ready for currently. The pandemic has actually turned 2020 into a tough year for both society and companies around the globe, that were already underway.

Hyperautomation Hyperautomation describes the procedure of how companies automate anything that can be automated in a company, utilizing devices like Equipment Knowing, AI, as well as robotics, among others. Artificial Knowledge Expert System (AI )is undoubtedly among the largest technology fads for the moment. This device can in many means: anticipating what clients will buy, adding facial recognition to company security, applying voice assistants, making usage of independent lorries and also robotics, and the checklist takes place. Within the context we are undergoing nowadays, AI will additionally, as well as make wise decisions regarding when and where to disperse resources. Robotics and also lorry automation The year

2021 is likewise anticipated to be one with fast growth and demand for robotics, specifically in the medical care market, to connect with members of society who are one of the most at risk to infection. They are expected to offer brand-new channels of interaction and also cleaning as well as safety solutions for firms requiring maintenance. Because method, cybersecurity mesh supplies companies with, enabling the security boundary to be defined around a person's identity or point. In various other words, any individual can get access to any digital possession in a safe way, no matter where the information is situated. The Cloud Although this fad began way prior to the pandemic, Covid-19's effect on worldwide companies has absolutely increased it. Many thanks to Cloud solutions, companies of varied sectors can As the Covid pandemic takes place, increasingly more business count on the Cloud to p Regarding this, Statista

anticipates that as 2021 obtains underway, the public Cloud services market is expected to go beyond 362. 3 billion UNITED STATE dollars by 2022. WFH modern technology This may be the technology pattern that will certainly be at the top of the podium throughout 2021., and it seems this pattern is expected to continue to grow in the years to come. A study exposed by Gartner shows that 90%of HR leaders will certainly permit workers to function remotely even after the Covid-19 injection is available.

Devices like, and other communication systems have become necessary for numerous ventures, facilitating remote working across the globe. These devices have assisted distributed groups maintain track of the tasks they are servicing, along with All these brand-new devices as well as technologies that have actually become a result of remote functioning have actually also aided business, along with boost partnership among members. However, taking into consideration that staff members functioning from home have to use their networks and that these may not be as secure as those provided by the office, companies may need to look to 3rd parties like Cloud services to guarantee those networks are risk-free and also the data is safeguarded. The years 2020 and also 2021 have differed from any kind of in the past. COVID might have transformed our lives upside down, however it might

not maintain organizations or specialists at a grinding halt. Organizations rolled on, customarily, individuals kept functioning, albeit from another location and also most operations still unravelled smoothly. As well as for all this, we have just modern technology to give thanks to. However what regarding C-Suite execs? Studies show that despite the fact that numerous companies are thinking about moving 80% of procedures to the cloud within a decade, CEOs are not so sure. As couple of as 3 out of 10 CEOs feel great about cloud movement. The prime factor for this is naturally data protection of customers. They will have all security functions, packed with data file encryptionand also data source monitoring to keep your data risk-free. If CEOs are still not comfortable, they can still go for an alternative that will certainly enable for movement of operations yet won't require information to be saved in the cloud. With the cloud, Lift and also Change does the job for you! You can merely migrate your entire system to the cloud and do away with your tradition framework. You can change you organization by investing in technology. Legacy infrastructure seriously limits development and market agility, as well as yet, Chief executive officers need to persevere since that framework is all they can trust for smooth procedure. Yet what happens if they can efficiently migrate to the cloud? After that there will certainly be no end to innovation as well as agility. Consumer Information Platforms, Advertising for anybody and everybody is a thing of the past. And Also Client Information System has actually proved that by being one of the largest technology fads for 2021. In 2021 data rules advertising totally, with 93 %of advertising and marketing supervisors concurring that using consumer data for advertising and marketing makes sure to give promising outcomes. Currently utilizing this comprehensive database of details, the advertising group can produce consumer accounts and also generate methods to woo the consumer. What are the benefits of utilizing a dedicated customer data system? When the advertising group recognizes the client completely, they can draft customized methods for each and every, which provides a far better chance to rapidly rack up a sale. Choice 2: Ask the customers for their information. No data extracted from the web can be as authentic as the one the consumer himself will supply you with. Not just sales however a CDP can additionally be a vital aspect in better customer retention. With more information regarding the client, the entire team can be conscious of customer assumptions from them whether in regards to service or merely website UI. Before CDPs entered into usage, complete integrations needed to be carried out on consumer data to produce a central data source, which used up both time and workforce. The entire procedure of utilizing information for advertising and marketing has ended up being a lot more reliable with the usage of CDPs. Work From Home, As opposed to a modern technology trend, job from residence has ended up being a lifestyle for us currently. But in the post-pandemic globe, Chief executive officers need to find to terms with the reality that such circumstances may occur time as well as once again as well as we have the innovation to handle them efficiently. Naturally, running a firm with no in person interaction could be challenging, yet there are ways to ensure individuals are collaborating with genuineness and stability. If needed, offer your employees with a VPN to ensure your information is safe and also the web rate is excellent. This will certainly make certain all digital meetings and also presentations run without a glitch. Your next-gen staff members are constantly all set to adjust any type of kind

of innovation patterns as well as tools you throw at them, however what about the older labor force? It is not possible or fair to toss them in the lurch in the middle of the pandemic. However does this mean there will be no UI? Of program not. Based upon a Net of Things principle, brainless technology primarily describes a personalized front-end. When we log into Amazon.com, all millions of customers see the exact same interface, there is no modification. But with headless tech, there is no telling what we will certainly see when we open the application. Modification possibilities will certainly be unlimited. Every client can have their extremely own UI.Cross-platform adaptation will not need any added job! Enables seamless combinations, This is the new kid in town when it concerns modern technology trends in organization however this is the age of personalized customer experience so it is only a matter of time before firms select this up, toss in some hardcore R&D and take it to new heights. These customized suites have an all-in-one system that has software concerning all essential HR functions like pay-roll as well as advantages administration, soft ability administration, onboarding, and also collaboration. Among the prime tasks of the HR department is to care for employee troubles, the most important of which is the worker's mental health and wellness. Courtesy of AI, we have located a means out of this. The employer need just go into a couple of requirements as well as the robot will merely wade its method with your pile of applications and draw out the very best of the whole lot. After that it depends on our seasoned Human Resources experts to cherry-pick thebest for the position! These 5 innovations are still in their inceptive stages as well as are not yet routine features for all companies. This is where Radixweb can aid you with important experience as well as understandings, gathered over years of experience in assisting organizations as well as their technology demands with electronic change services. So to connect to us to review even more modern technology fads in company, provide us a telephone call or drop an e-mail!.?.!!. Because of the devastating hit of the pandemic from the yearand database monitoring to keep your data safe. In 2021 data guidelines advertising totally, with 93 %of advertising supervisors concurring that making use of consumer information for advertising is certain to offer appealing outcomes.

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Blog Post #1

Out of all the films we had to watch, Mid 90’s was the most interesting to me. I’m interested in learning to skate and the retro look has always been cool to me. It was also one of the only films to hold my full attention to the point where I rewatched scenes for my own pleasure. Long story short this movie is lit. One of the characters I most identified with would be Ray. 

In the skate shop, Ray explains how it is being black because Fourth Grade asks if it’s cool. Spoiler it’s pretty cool not gonna lie. Ray gives an example that I wasn’t expecting from the movie. He says when they skate in Beverly Hills, they already get looked at some type of way and people say they’re vandalizing and stuff, but it feels like it comes down harder on him. After hearing him say that it was apparent that I would probably relate to him the most since i’m a young black man, and have also felt that some instances the consequences are harder for myself. 

When Ruben is explaining to Stevie everyone's nicknames, he says that Ray doesn’t need one because he’s cool without one. I feel a similar way about nicknames. I don’t need a nickname to feel different or cooler because A) I’m already cool, and B) I feel like my name is cool and having a nickname would take away from who I am. Stevie also says that ray is cooler without a nickname. Ray’s friends obviously see him in a positive light, which is the same with mine (I hope). They’ve told me I’m a cool dude, even though I don’t see anything I do that makes me seem any cooler than the average guy. If I had to take a guess It’s probably how I carry myself, like Ray I come off as a chill, laid back kinda guy and I also have a knack for clowning on people. We both also question authority, whether it be demands or rules that are set in place.

 When Ray and his squad are posted up on the steps of a school, a security guard walks up and tells them that they gotta skidaddle before they get their asses beat. Of course in classic teen fashion they say no and start roasting his ass lmao. Ray and the guard get into an F-you match and Ray says “you smokin cigarettes on school property” and the guard says Jesus smokes cigarettes. Ray immediately claps back with “what kinda cigarettes he smoke”. The guard, caught off guard (pun intended) stumbles over his words and storms off. Long story short I’m a smart ass.

There are three common themes in the films we watched and they are, drugs, acceptance and alcohol. In Mid 90’s Stevie smokes cigarettes with Ruben because he wants to fit in. Ruben saying he should be more like him because he smokes, skates, and dips his pen in someone else’s ink *wink*probably gave Stevie more incentive to try and fit in within the group of skaters especially since it appears that Stevie is younger than Ruben is. In KIDS Telly steals a 40 and drinks it throughout the next scene. Later Telly is offered Whip its in one of his homeboys crib and does one, immediately feeling the high. Back to Mid 90’s, Fuck Shit gives Ruben and Stevie some of his ADD medication, much to the dislike of Ray. In the next scene the group goes to a party and Stevie is seen smoking weed with a girl he met that night. These themes are relatable to youth culture because teens and young adults are at a vulnerable point socially in life. 

Teens usually try to fit into groups that they see as popular or successful at that point in time.They try to feel accepted because they themselves are unsure of what they want to do or who they are. Humans are social creatures so not fitting in any group hits us hard mentally.

Now the part I’ve been looking forward to the most, a new soundtrack for Mid 90’s! I’m about to give you the greatest soundtrack ever just so you know. 

The first song I thought of was “There They Go”, a South african rapper named  Nasty C. This song in my opinion fits well in the scene where everyone is skating at the courthouse and the police arrive. Everyone scatters and I think the name of the song fits the situation well. The song just sounds like good chase music to me.

 Next is “Dr Birds”, by rap collective Griselda. This song fits more as an instrumental in the scene where Fuck Shit accidently hits Stevie’s older brother with his board during a trick. The two then stand face to face and Fuck Shit punks him making him walk off. The song gives off a standoff vibe and has a bell sound that reminds me of the standoffs from Dragonball Z right before a fight.

“Fubu” by rapper Royce Da 5’9” featuring Conway the machine comes to mind as soon as I saw the party scene. The song is from Royce’s album “The Allegory”, and like always he come with bars. The beat gives off a mischievous and sneaky vibe that I think would go along well with the low lit lighting and the weed they smoke since obviously they wouldn’t want anyone to know what’s happening here.

“Wish You Well” by rapper Amir Obe would fit perfectly during the scene when Stevie comes home high off the drugs he took before and after the party and runs from his brother around the house. The song has an intensity that isn’t too overpowering for the scene, even if only the beat is used.

“Kingdom Come” by Raury played in the back of my head when Ruben and Stevie were talking about nicknames. The song reminds me of togetherness with its calm mood and slower tempo. I think it works well when characters are connecting or expanding their relationship between one another.

“I’m Good Luv, Enjoy” by rapper Aaron May is a song I personally love to cruise to, so it’s only fitting I have it play during the scene when the group of skaters (and Stevie) are riding their boards down the street after Ray suggest they go skateboarding at the skate shop. The song would continue to play during the security guard interaction. The song has a good bounce along with the lyrics “I ain’t got time for you, get up out my face” work well because Ray gets in the guards face and clowns him which makes him leave. It reminds me of high school when me and my friends would crack jokes on the security guard at lunch.

“PTSD” by rap label Dreamville is a much better song to play when Ray and Stevie skate after his mother tells him he can’t hang with the skaters anymore. After his mom does her motherly duty Ray and Stevie have a heart to heart, and ray opens up about his younger brother who passed away. The song that actually plays during this scene is ass I’m not gonna lie. They needed to have me select the songs, Jonah Hill should cut me a check I’m just saying.

“Almeda” by Solonge is more of a joke selection. Don’t get me wrong the song is good, but if it were to play when Stevie downs a 40, that would be hilarious! Think about it as Steve chugs the bottle Solonge goes “pour my drank, sip, sip, sip,” lmao pure gold right there.

“Y U DON’T LOVE ME (MISS AMERIKKKA)” by Joey Bada$$ would play a little after Stevie gets drunk to Solonge. A lot happens in this scene and the trippy sound the beat has would complement Stevie and his impaired state especially when he gets into a fight with Ruben at a skatepark.

The final song I couldn’t decide between “It Ain’t Hard to Tell” by Nas, or “93 ‘Till Infinity” by Souls Of Mischief. These songs would play during Fourth Grade’s movie he was filming throughout the whole movie. The song that plays in the movie is an old school hip hop record, so I figured why not keep the similar sound, especially since he named the film wait for it….Mid 90’s.

You probably want to listen to this marvelous and swaggy soundtrack, oh what’s this a link to the soundtrack where did that come from. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0eFLRkG3KEgyMbWTGcJefn?si=RBLAKIsrTFqDLrsaLG_PSQ

[rubyslipperscollective]

we’ve got spirit - an exploration of varsity pep from a cheerleader’s perspective

**an essay from my english class senior year of high school. i reflect on my experiences as a cheerleader (an activity which is no longer in any way congruent with my identity) and on the culture of athletics in my high school**

“And now, please rise for the playing of our national anthem.”

It’s my first ever away game––Friday night lights. Sweaty hand gripping pom-pom, pom-pom pressed against my heart, heart racing. I don’t remember what town we were playing, but it was far. Our buses got lost on the way there; the ride was long. Really long. Long enough for the seniors to get drunk in the back of the bus.

I was 14 years old, 93 pounds, and a terrible cheerleader. I knew nothing about how to balance in the air or support another girl in a pyramid. Thankfully, I had three experienced seniors as my bases. Not thankfully, they were all wasted.

The girls who were seniors when I was a freshman were pretty and mean: just how cheerleaders are meant to be. They treated freshman (particularly the ones who sucked at cheerleading, namely me) as essentially sub-human. At the first captain’s practice, one of the captains insulted my ability to dance until I cried. Probably two weeks later, a different, particularly unkind senior commented that I “looked like a slug” when I was in the air stunting.

The seniors were in charge. They were popular and I was not. They could be as mean as they wanted and there was simply nothing that could be done about it. After they graduated, we no longer had older, more popular cheerleaders to torment us, so Cougar Nation (as our fan section has titled themselves) stepped in.

The student section hates their cheerleaders, treating us about as inhumanely as those seniors did. I’ve been told it has always been this way, but in reality it must have all started when the football team tanked. Four consecutive seasons without a win, including my freshman and sophomore year, are bound to make cheerleaders seem annoying. Any cheer with the word “victory” in it immediately serves as a joke with that kind of losing record. My first ever Cougar Night was a Saturday night home game. We lost 65-0 and a drunken high schooler threw a soft pretzel at me.

Each time I trekked onto the track I was focused less on pep than I was on an internal pep-talk. It’s not personal. They aren’t booing because they hate you, Dani, they’re booing because they hate the cheerleaders as an entity.

But even once the football team was on the rise––nearly winning a state title in my junior year––love for the cheerleaders never seemed to catch on.

The cheerleaders that we see on TV and read about in books are never like me. They always feel loved by their fan sections; they are always confident and popular. I didn’t go into cheerleading looking for confidence and popularity––I went into it because I have a lot of spirit and I didn’t feel like throwing away twelve years of dance classes––but the confidence would have been nice, at least. So it didn’t make sense to me, with all these ideas of what cheerleaders are supposed to feel like, why I would walk away from every game feeling more hated than the last.

I set out to analyze this phenomenon, and started by questioning why students wouldn’t cooperate with cheers even when we were winning games. There were a select few call-back cheers that a select few fans would participate in, but other than that, participation was sparse if present. There seemed to be no direct logic behind this, so my research required some deep plunging into the nature and culture of our varsity athletics. I started, most logically, with the Cougar Nation Facebook group.

The Cougar Nation Facebook group is a necessity for any sports fan in our high school, promoting the attendance and sportsmanship of students at all athletic events...kinda. By promoting attendance, I mean “you better fucking show up you fucking pieces of egg fart” (this is a real quote). By promoting sportsmanship I mean insulting other teams’ mascots, hygiene, and their sexual habits, as well as leading offensive/obscene chants against referees and specific players on opposing teams. And by all athletic events I mean only boys’ athletic events. And maybe a girls’ championship once in a while. At the end of each post they give “shoutouts” to people who, in the past week, have drank impressive amounts or hurt themselves in some idiotic way. Girls only receive shoutouts for instagram posts that expose notable amounts of their bodies.

The culture of our sports fans is to be as obnoxious as is humanly possible. In attending sporting events, they aim not to support student athletes, but rather is to piss off as many people as they can. The atmosphere they create is not conducive to the growth of anyone involved––student athletes cannot perform well under this kind of negative pressure, referees will make calls unfavorable to teams with abrasive fan sections, students who are not interested in drinking and/or being ridiculed by their peers feel excluded from the sports scene, and administrators face heat for having drunk and insufferable high schoolers on their hands.

Even though I was cheer captain this past year, I was never once made to feel invited or included in the promotion of school spirit by Cougar Nation. For this I am thankful. Over my four years as a CHS cheerleader, students’ behavior at athletic events has become something I am ashamed of. All four of my years, my spot for sideline cheers was the closest to the student section, and I essentially became the face of the cheerleaders as far as Cougar Nation was concerned...and never in my life have I held a more thoroughly embarrassing title. As a cheerleader during this past basketball season I was pointed and laughed at for trying to get the fan section to cheer along with the squad at a quarter. During the football season, in addition to being hit with a soft pretzel and a few other projectiles, I have been yelled at to pick up students’ dropped foodstuffs and water bottles (filled with anything but water) and called a number of unfavorable names based off of both my personality and appearance.

When I shout “Yell C-H-S!” into the crowd, nobody responds minus maybe a drunken fan screaming “No, bitch!” It’s not because they don’t like me and it’s not because I am doing a bad job––facts I have had to assure myself time and time again––but because our fans don’t come to the game for the athletes. They come to the game for themselves. Unlike other schools’ sports fans, who go to games to support their friends and express school pride, our sports fans have two alternative goals in showing up:

1. To get drunk (and, subgoal: to not get breathalyzed)

2. To get something entertaining on their Snapchat story.

Cougar Nation doesn’t treat their members nor their athletes with the respect that athletes or students or human beings in general deserve. Even though I moved the entire cheer squad down 30 feet to get the fan section involved on Cougar Night, and I got a surprisingly large number of people to shout with me, respect for the cheerleaders will never be there. There will always be someone rowdy enough to throw a soft pretzel at a freshman and then later demand that she pick up his bottle of vodka when he drops it. It is the nature of The Nation.

And, much like when I was a freshman taking blows from mean seniors, my position is a powerless one. The people who run the Cougar Nation group are popular, I am not. They have momentum––an entire student population––behind them, backing them up. I have only myself. I can’t ask that they cheer along with the words twenty girls are yelling at them when they won’t even allow girls to make posts in the Facebook group, and worse yet won’t advertise for girls’ athletic events. I can’t singlehandedly out-cheer fifteen boys, drunk and shirtless, screaming “bullshit” at referees in the basketball semi-finals. I can’t force conventional school spirit upon kids whose sole desire is to get drunk for Wednesday night baseball games. I can’t change people who don’t want to be changed.

Maybe this just wasn’t meant to be a school with the clean-cut, family-friendly school spirit I was hoping for when I signed up for cheerleading. Maybe our version of school spirit is in fact what all schools will eventually come to adopt––I mean, hey, we must be ranked first in the state for a reason, right? Maybe, someday, a freshman in a CHS cheer uniform will get hit with a soft pretzel and hope to change the ways of The Nation, just like me. And maybe, unlike me, she’ll figure out how to do it.

[noiseartists]

Italian Shoegaze and Dream Pop quick guide, Vol. 1

This time we'd like to introduce you to the Italian multi-colored panorama with a selection of recommended bands orbiting the shoegaze planet. Better known for its classical music tradition, nowadays Italy holds surprises for noise lovers. Shoegaze, dream pop and noise pop are no longer sort of 90s memorabilia nor rare birds here: with Slowdive, MBV and Ride reuniting in recent years Italian tour dates were always included. And while this resulted in increased fan bases and attention from independent media - with new specialized webzines and web radios coming to light, the truth is Italy has been speaking the language of loud guitars and bleached vocals for some time now. While in the last decade a few notable veterans have already been making their way in the alternative world, especially over the border, newbies have come to light and settled a real Italogaze scene.

For both, the drive to fit in the international music scene means staying unique, contemporary and somehow having sharp, recognizable roots at the same time. Drawing inspiration from different genres such as new wave, psych, electronic, grunge, each artist tends to blend their common ground - shoegaze classics and noise essentials - with original tastes.

What they all share is the need to communicate (with no actual words, like any shoegaze singer would) at high volumes, both vertically and horizontally. That is, the listener might find an emotional connection with an ambiguous time-line that ranges from vintage sound scapes to modern arrangements, or he could even find himself in another place.

Lost in a metaphysical space, you can't just tell if you're floating under the surface of a rough sea, if you just ended up in a desolate valley with no-one but a cello, if you're looking for your answers in a remote galaxy or maybe you just got caught in a powerful, colourful vortex. Either way, you'd probably forget to be in your room and, we're sure, never guess to be under the warm sun of Italy. 

You might have already taken a look at our articles on the talented Clustersun and Stella Diana, now let’s continue our journey with a short overview of recommended Italogaze bands. More bands and more steps in this sonic trip are coming soon!

 STELLA DIANA

Arguably one of the most long-lived bands in the Italian shoegaze scene, Stella Diana is a multifaceted project founded in 1998 by guitarist Dario Torre, who has been making a big name for himself in Italogaze and international alternative circles as a gifted composer as well as an enthusiastic supporter of shoegaze and alternative genres made in Italy.

Along with his musical career he currently runs the web radio Shoegazin’ your waves, through which he is promoting popular and emerging Italian artists.

Stella Diana has released 5 albums in total showing dramatical changes in terms of line-up, sound shaping, inspirations and even lyrics language.

Their early works were characterised by sharp compositions, echoing vocals and a post-punk texture of sound and song structures. The very choice of Italian language was not obstructive, as is shown by a long-time fan base from all over the world.

Actually the band collected hundreds of European tour dates, which has made them better known abroad than in their homeland.

However, 2015 was the turning point in Stella Diana’s history. Their fifth release, titled Nitocris and produced by renowned sound-engineer Marc Joy, marked a decisive shift towards modern shoegaze tones. Thanks to its richness obtained by skilfully combining walls of sound with dark moods, the album has been widely acclaimed.

Stella Diana’s upcoming work will be titled 57, due out May 25. Its launching single Der Sandmann suggests new patterns and evolution: it is a dreamy, minimalist track featuring a cello that evokes a sense of isolation.

Despite such variety, what has been unchanged throughout Stella Diana discography insofar is an obvious passion for 80s and 90s sounds, their taste in creating melodies, hazy atmospheres and hypnotic bass and drums.

Take your time to read our interview and in-depth collaboration with the band to learn more about them.

Stella Diana’s line-up is:

Dario Torre - vocals & guitar

Giacomo Salzano - bass

Giulio Grasso - drums  

Stella Diana’s music work is:

Supporto colore, album, released 2007

Gemini, album, released 2011

41 61 93, album, released February 2014

Alhena, EP, released December 2015

Nitocris, album, released April 2016

Non-original, yet great material include:

Leave them all behind (Ride cover), digital single, from VA - Leave Them All Behind - A Tribute To Ride, released March 16, 2015 by The Blog That Celebrates Itself Records

Lazarus (Boo Radleys cover), digital single, from VA - We Are All BOO´s, released April 14, 2016 by The Blog That Celebrates Itself Records

Mild Confusion (Tamaryn acoustic cover), digital single, released April 2017

Nothing Natural (Lush cover), digital single, from VA - Lovelife, A Homage To Lush, released March 1, 2018 by The Blog That Celebrates Itself

HUMAN COLONIES

Blurred dreamy cloudy fuzzy something, and that’s all. Despite such a brief self-introduction on social media, it seems that a little more has been written on Human Colonies since their debut in 2013.

With their last release, Midnight screamer, the band has gained popularity and after some premieres circulating on webzines and specialized blogs, the album has been welcomed by Rolling Stone Italia as a groovy-yet-shoegazey job well done.

Human Colonies music is all about directness and simplicity, tons of fuzz, gentle vocals and a powerful rythmic section. Their favourite artists include Dinosaur Jr., My Bloody Valentine, The Pixies, And you will know us by the trail of dead, Melvins, Sparklehorse.

Their sound is constantly moving through noise, dream pop, psychedelic, all mixed with a genuine lo-fi / punk attitude.

Human Colonies are currently touring Italy, if you happen to be around we recommend you not to miss one of their energetic gigs.

If you’re curious about the history behind this shy and bubbly power trio, we invite you to read more on our dedicated article coming soon.

Human Colonies’ line-up is:

Giuseppe Mazzoni - guitar, vocals

Sara Telesca - bass, backing vocals

Riccardo Cotti - drums and percussions

Human Colonies’ music work is:

Demo/EP, demo, released August 2013

Calvary, album, released 2015

Big Domino Vortex, EP, released January 2017

Midnight Screamer, album, released April 2018

Non-original, yet great material include:

Breather (Chapterhouse cover), single, released March 2016. The song is off Treasures, A Tribute to Chapterhouse, a compilation of tracks by various artists appearing on The Blog that Celebrates Itself

Porcelain (Ulrika Spacek cover), single, released July 2017. The track is included in La Femme Noir, A Tribute Compilation to Zanne 2017.

REV REV REV

Rev Rev Rev is an outstanding example of Italogaze bands that have become famous internationally. Since 2013 they have been touring across continental Europe and UK, as we can read in their detailed self-introduction on the web.

In their own words, Rev Rev Rev’s sound is influenced by first-wave shoegaze, as well as psychedelic rock, re-metabolizing these elements into a loud, woozy, fuzz-driven context. Their live sets comprise kaleidoscopic video projections waving with music, and the use of self-constructed stomp boxes, producing weird sounds.

Positive feedback so far include national and international recognition from national and international press and web zines (Clash music, Sounds better with reverb, Drowned in sound). Various singles were included in shoegaze compilations and sometimes crossed the border of alternative circles – notably, their 2014 song “Catching a buzz” was featured on Steve Lamacq's show on BBC 6 Radio.

The band took part in important events such as Cosmosis Festival 2016 in Manchester (headlined by The Jesus and Mary Chain, Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Raveonettes, just to name a few), followed by a nearly one-year tour of Europe.

The latter was a promotional tour for their last album, titled Des fleurs magiques bourdonnaient, a mesmerising work in which classical dreamy atmospheres blend with echoes of 70s psychedelia, desert rock and noise.

Rev Rev Rev’s line-up is:

Laura Iacuzio – vocals, bass, guitar

Sebastian Lugli – guitar

Andrea Dall'Omo – bass

Greta Benatti – drums

Rev Rev Rev’s music work is:

Rev Rev Rev, album, released October 2013

Catching a buzz, digital single EP, released October 2014

Des fleurs magiques bourdonnaient, album, released February 2016. The album went shortly sold-out and a repress was released in July.

Non-original, yet great material include:

Polar bear (Ride cover), released March 2015. The song is included in the tribute compilation to Ride Leave them all behind, appearing on The Blog That Blog That Celebrates Itself

TIGER! SHIT! TIGER! TIGER!

Punk-ish vocal melodies, guitars playing loud and straight, catchy rhythms: you can meet this power trio halfway between central Italy and USA.

Since their foundation in 2007 Tiger! Shit! Tiger! Tiger! has racked up hundreds of live dates in and out of Italy, bringing along their mighty sound.

USA has in fact become a second home-country as the band showcased its sharp first album (titled Be Yr Own Shit) in several successful performances overseas. They participated in New York CMJ Festival in 2008 and 2009, then reached Austin to take part in famous South By Southwest (SXSW) Festival (2010-2011).

Critical and public acclaim was so great that two tracks have been featured in Anglo-American movie soundtracks.

While TSTT have obviously lived and breathed American indie rock, noise and post-punk legends (Sonic Youth, Fugazi, Dinosaur jr., Sebadoh, Eric's Trip, Built to Spill, Modest Mouse, Pavement, Polvo, No Age, Thee Oh Sees are all quoted as their faves), an evolution in sound and arrangements can be seen in their last releases. Although their rebel heart has been kept, Forever Young and later Corners display slightly different sensibility, various approaches to song structure and a refined attitude towards harmony and vocals that won’t disappoint old and new noisy fans.

Tiger! Shit! Tiger! Tiger! line-up is:

Diego Masciotti - guitar, vocals

Giovanna Vedovati - bass

Nicola Vedovati - drums

Tiger! Shit! Tiger! Tiger! music work is:

Be Yr Own Shit, album, released 2008. The song The Architects of Despaired has been featured in Lee Madsen’s “Hated” OST (2010)

Whispers, EP, released 2010. The title-track is included in Richard Naylon’s “Music Land World” OST (2013)

Forever Young, album, released 2013

Corners, album, released 2017

MY INVISIBLE FRIEND

On the dreamy side of Italogaze we find this promising band formed in 2014 by four guys who grew up with Spiritualized, My Bloody Valentine and Cocteau Twins.

Started off with quite psychedelic, round, dark atmospheres, in 2016 My Invisible Friend have been shifting into a more mellow, classical dream pop attitude while maintaining their beloved psych-vibes alive.

As a result, their last release is nothing short of an elegant ode to entrancing sounds – that means fuzzy bass lines, liquid, bite guitar tones and a female/male voice taking us on a cathartic trip to harmony.

After touring Italy and France, in September 2017 the band left a cryptic message on their Facebook page. Their future is unclear, as we understand. We just hope this won’t mean a split – Italogaze needs more of their livid colours and dreaming voice.

My Invisible Friend’s line-up is:

Annalisa Rizzardi - bass, vocals

Cristian Macchia - guitars, vocals

Joe - guitars, vocals

Valentina Baldrighi - drums

My Invisible Friend’s music work is:

S/T EP, released September 2016

Green Sight, digital single, released 2015

My Invisible Friend, EP, released 2015

 ELECTRIC FLOOR

Electric Floor is an Italian duo formed in 2013. After experimenting with different alt-rock genres, the band settled as a shoegaze/new-synthwave project.

Their EP Fader is highly recommended to those who are longing for 80s tones and moods. With upfront dramatic voice, dance-y rhythm section and tons of dark synths, it clearly shows the duo’s love for new wave and electronic classics – both vintage and modern.

At the same time, however, typical distortion and reverb make the guitar sound closer to post-punk and shoegaze, creating a particular feature.

Actually for a year now Electric Floor’s release has been going well within the Italogaze world, as it received positive feedback from national and international reviewers, singles were featured in compilations and broadcast by various web radios.

The duo has recently launched their new single "I made it up" (out May 2018), which confirms their post-punk attitude to song-crafting combined with a deep interest in dance beats and atmospheres.

Electric Floor’s line-up is:

Emanuele Chiarelli – vocals, guitars, programming

Simone Costantino De Luca – programming, synth

Their music work is:

Fader, EP, released March 2017

I made it up, digital single, included in Chiaroscuro. Italogaze 2018, a compilation by various artists released May 2018 on Seashell Records and Vipchoyo Sound Factory.

 OUTRO

We hope you enjoyed this first volume of our quick guide to Italogaze. Look at the blog for the next ones.

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Placement is the much-needed talent agent for jobseekers

“We’re giving away money to strangers on the internet” is a pretty cavalier pitch for a new startup. But the more I learned about Placement, the smarter it sounded. In exchange for 10% of your income for 18 to 36 months, Placement will find you a much higher paying job, prep you for the interview and help you move to your new city of employment.

Actors, athletes and musicians have talent agents. Why shouldn’t office workers? That’s co-founder and CEO Sean Linehan’s vision for Placement. The former VP of product at Flexport thinks he can consistently get people a 30% raise on their cost of living-adjusted income if they’re willing to relocate from either their sleepy hometown or an overpriced metropolis.

“We think you can transform your life without becoming an engineer. You just have to be in the right place,” says Linehan. Not everyone is going to learn to code, and Placement isn’t a school. “We’re not in the business of training people to do jobs. We’re in training people to get jobs.”

Placement sits at the lucrative center of a slew of megatrends. People switching jobs more often. The desperate need to pay off crushing student loan debt. The rise of mid-size cities as rent gets out of control in San Francisco and New York. Social apps keeping people in touch from afar. The search for deeper fulfillment going mainstream.

Placement co-founder and CEO Sean Linehan

Through the normalization of income sharing agreements, Placement has found a way to powerfully monetize these societal shifts. That potential has attracted a $3 million seed round led by Founders Fund and backed by Coatue’s new seed fund, XYZ Ventures, The House Fund, plus angels like Flexport CEO Ryan Petersen, Eventbrite founders Julia and Kevin Hartz, DoorDash CEO Tony Xu, 137 Ventures MD Elizabeth Weil and her husband Facebook Calibra VP of Product Kevin.

With the cash to build out its jobseeker’s software toolkit, Placement could grow far beyond the Jerry Maguire-style boutique talent agency into a scalable way to put millions on a better career track. “The number one problem that I see in the American economy right now is the lack of income mobility,” Linehan says. “There are so many services for making rich people get richer, but what about services to help low-income people to get to the middle, or help those in the middle to improve?”

“If I stayed home, there’s just no way”

The CEO’s own rise was “a tried and true American tale,” he tells me. “I grew up in a pretty low-income neighborhood in San Bernardino . . . below the poverty line.” But a chance to attend UC Berkeley brought him to Silicon Valley, and the economic powerhouse city of San Francisco (before the housing crisis made it so expensive). “I don’t think I could have been as successful if I went to another place. If I had stayed in my home town, there’s just no way.”

Yet after college, when friends moved away and he broke up with his girlfriend, Linehan found himself living in a bunkbed by himself with extra space. “I called a friend back home working a minimum wage job, still living at home, and said ‘Your life kinda sucks. Come crash with me!,’ ” Linehan recalls. “He was super smart — smarter than most of the people I went to Berkeley with, but he never got on the train out of town.”

In the following years, Linehan coached his friend through becoming a professional and navigating interviews. “Now he’s tripled his income on a cost of living adjusted basis. He went from minimum wage to $70,000 to $80,000.” That ignited the idea for Placement. “How do you take that process of tapping people who are special and just need economic opportunity, and bring it to more people?” But Linehan needed a co-founder who could execute on getting these up-and-comers jobs.

That’s where Katie Kent came in. Also from the product team at Flexport, Kent had helped start Zipfian Academy as the first data science bootcamp in America. The 12-week crash course had been placing 93% of graduates into full-time roles when Zipfian was acquired by Galvanize, where Kent became director of outcomes with the mandate to get students great jobs. The right idea, experience and the track record of turning Flexport into a $3.2 billion freight forwarding unicorn led investors to jump at the chance to fund Placement.

Share me the money

So how exactly do Placement’s income sharing agreements work? “They only pay us if they make more money on a cost of living adjusted basis” Linehan explains.

First, the startup recruits through targeted advertising and word of mouth referrals, which the company says 100% of clients have provided. Primarily, it’s seeking business professionals with a skill mismatched to their city, such as sales, human resources or operations in a place without companies competing to hire for those roles. They might have never left their hometown or returned after school at a mid-tier college, suppressing their earning potential. But lack of knowledge about jobseeking, fears of leaving their support network or a lack of funds to finance a move keep them stuck there.

“There are two moments when society puts a gentle hand on your shoulder saying its okay to move away: when you go to college and when you graduate college,” says Linehan. “We’re trying to engineer a third moment. We give people the permission and space to have that conversation with their family by providing that forcing function.” Placement serves the same utility the CEO did for his friend, revealing that if they seize the opportunity of moving to a growing but still affordable city like Denver, Austin, Raleigh or Seattle, “people’s lives would be so much better.”

The other demographic Placement seeks is the 10 million-plus workers who’ve gotten in over their heads in some of the country’s priciest cities. “If you’re ambitious and talented but not an engineer in SF, this is a hard life. The costs are exceeding the benefits at this point.” Placement looks for cheaper cities where their skills are still relevant and they might even earn the same or a little less, but they can fetch a huge increase in income on a cost of living-adjusted basis and they have a path to buying a house. Linehan declares that “Our controversial opinion is that more important than reskilling people is getting them to the right place where the work is happening in the first place.”

Placement then evaluates the prospective client in what is currently an extremely selective process to determine if they’re undervalued based on their skills, qualifications, shortfalls and redflags. If they’re already being adequately or overpaid, it won’t accept them. Those eligible are offered access to Placement’s research on all the optimal salary and location/hirer pairs for their role, which most people wouldn’t or couldn’t do themselves. Linehan says, “We run their job search for them. We’re kind of like a concierge.”

Once they’ve selected some targets, Placement quarterbacks their preparation process, helping them to improve their LinkedIn and resume, practice telling their story and offering mock interviews with experts in their field. As they progress through interviews Placement sets up and requires hirers offer remotely, it teaches clients to negotiate to get their best possible compensation.

“If you’re a normal person who didn’t go to an elite institution or are a couple years out of school, there’s no resources,” Linehan laments. While some top coding schools and other bootcamps place graduates, and some startups like Pathrise are also working on interview prep, most seeking a new employer end up relying on mediocre job hunting tips they find online. That’s in part because it was hard to get people to fork over significant cash in exchange for instruction that wasn’t guaranteed to help.

How Placement income sharing agreements work

The Placement income sharing agreement is designed to align incentives, though. It’s vested in getting clients not only the best job and salary, but one they’ll want to stick with. As long as the startup nets them a higher adjusted income, clients pay 10% of their earnings. That lasts for 18 months, or 36 months if they receive Placement’s $5,000 relocation stipend and human support. There are also caps on the total Placement can get paid back, and the agreement dissolves after five years so clients aren’t locked in if things don’t work out.

For example, Placement aims to help someone earning $40,000 per year pre-taxes reach $52,000 on a cost of living adjusted basis. They’d end up paying Placement $7,794 over the course of 18 months, or $433 per month. After the bill, they’d still be earning $3,900 per month, or $567 more than they used to. If they take the $5,000 relocation stipend and extra assistance, their ISA extends to 36 months and they’ll end up paying back $15,588 total, including the stipend.

Clients are likely to keep growing their compensation after their Placement ISA ends, so they’ll start reaping all the added proceeds. The startup has worked with fewer than 1,000 clients to date, but is supposedly growing quickly.

Eventually, Placement could move into working with programmers and designers, but it sees a big gap in assistance for business roles. Linehan notes that “We’re providing an option that will be available to a lot more people than a Lambda School or Galvanize coding bootcamp. Not everyone’s going to be software engineers.”

Making America anti-fragile

The biggest hurdle for Placement will be scaling what can be quite a hands-on, relationship-driven process of matching clients with the right hirers. “It’s one thing to get one person a job. It’s another to get 10,000 people a job,” Linehan admits. But he conquered the same problem at Flexport, which was moving 1,000 shipping containers across the ocean but had to figure out “how the hell do you move 1 million?”

Placement co-founders (from left): Katie Kent and Sean Linehan

That requires Placement to pour product know-how into building tools that equip clients to take more initiative to match themselves with hirers and teach themselves interview skills. It also must automate more of its marketing outreach, client screening and connections to recruiters while retaining a human element worth a four to five-figure price.

Right now, the startup’s team numbers just four, and though it will expand to seven soon, it may need to raise a bunch more to chase this dream. Some investors have been understandably skeptical about the whole “handing out $5,000” model without onerous ISAs.

For comparison, the one-year MissionU school for business and data jobs that was acquired and shut down by WeWork asked for 15% of income for three years without a relocation stipend, or $23,400 on a $52,000 per year job. ISAs for General Assembly’s tech job education cost 10% for 48 months, even if students don’t earn more than in their old job. Pathrise’s slimmer offering costs just 7% for one year. Colleges are jumping on the trend too, with some working with startup Leif to run their ISAs.

Placement has plans to cover prickly edge cases. If someone gets laid off from their new job, the startup will help them find another. “We’re on the hook to make sure they’re successful,” Linehan insists. It only won’t step in if an employee is fired for an ethical problem like sexual harassment or committing fraud. And if someone simply gets lonely in their unfamiliar city, they’re not required to stay, though moving home could hurt their earnings and Placement’s take. That’s why the startup is working to help its clients find community, even amongst each other, so they don’t feel isolated, and prefers sending workers to cities where they know someone.

Meanwhile, Placement must resist the temptation to become a hiring agency paid by employers and instead work fully on behalf of its clients. “When you’re aligned economically with the employer, you’re just chasing dollars from bigger and bigger whales of companies, and at one point you figure out you’re a recruiting firm for the Gap,” Linehan says with a shudder. The complexity of dealing with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service is enough hassle, so Placement doesn’t intend to work with jobseekers abroad or those that need visas, as “it’s not good for startups if you’re at the mercy of the government.”

Luckily, U.S. salaries total $8.6 trillion per year, Linehan claims, so it’s got enough of a domestic market. “The American economy is so huge that I don’t see other people tackling problems like that being competitive.” Placement does have potential to use its data to recommend and teach specific skills. “If you just make this change, if you learn Excel, you could totally get this job in a different industry that pays more and that you’ll like more,” Linehan says. He also dreams of one day improving urban planning by suggesting cities build music venues or parks that jobseekers say would soften the landing of moving there.

Zooming out, there’s also chance for Placement make the country more stable and resistant to strong-man populism promising financial security. “A two-tier society is fragile. I don’t want to live in a democracy where there’s a bunch of hay waiting for a matchstick to set it on fire,” Linehan concludes. “There doesn’t have to be a have and a have-not class, and you don’t need the government to do forced redistribituion to make everything fair. You just need people that care about getting on the right track, and that to me is a worthy cause to dedicate a life to.”

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Stranger in America (Art in America) / Glenn Ligon

AS A YOUNG BOY, Glenn Ligon would get on the subway with his older brother, traveling from the South Bronx to Manhattan to go to school. On the way to the train, he walked through a burned-out neighborhood in which the only intact structure was a police station, mordantly nicknamed “Little House on the Prairie.” Emerging onto the leafy streets of the Upper West Side, he headed to the progressive Walden School, which Andrew Goodman, one of three civil-rights workers slain in Mississippi during the “Freedom Summer” of 1964, had attended some years earlier.

In 1972, when Ligon was 12, one Walden School teacher wrote in an end-of-year report, “Glenn has a good knowledge of slavery and black history, but finds standard social studies uninteresting and as yet has developed no social conscience. He tends to be politically apathetic about being black, which is a shame.” That report, remade in screenprint on handmade paper as one of eight End of Year Reports (2003), presently hangs on the walls of New York’s Whitney Museum of American Art in “Glenn Ligon: America,” the artist’s midcareer retrospective, organized by Whitney curator Scott Rothkopf. Now 51, Ligon lives in Manhattan’s Tribeca and works in a spare, airy loft near the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, down the hall from his longtime friends, the artists Paul Ramirez Jonas and Byron Kim.

Ligon’s relationship with the Whitney is longstanding. He graduated from the museum’s Independent Study Program in 1985, three years after he received a BA in art from Wesleyan University. The Whitney owns the largest collection anywhere of Ligon’s works, and it was the first museum to show him. He has appeared in two Whitney Biennials, in 1991 and 1993, as well as, in 1994, the museum’s landmark “Black Male” show. In the context of this retrospective, which demonstrates Ligon’s sustained and serious engagement with race-related issues over 25 years, that almost 40-year-old report strikes an ironic chord. Was Ligon just not acting militant or poor enough for the certainly well-intentioned teacher who was evaluating him?

Ligon’s contribution to the 1993 biennial, for which he won his first renown, was Notes on the Margin of the Black Book (1991–93), a dismantled and wall-mounted copy of Robert Mapplethorpe’s notorious tome [1], its 91 images of naked black men interspersed with quotes that Ligon gathered from scholars, writers, the subjects of the photographs and men in bars. The homoerotic Mapplethorpe images helped fuel the Culture Wars of the early ’90s. Ligon himself is gay, yet he most often discusses his work in the context of being African-American. He told French critic Marie de Brugerolle in 1995 that he found the images “very disturbing” when he first saw them.

I asked myself if those photographs were racist. I realized then that the question was too limiting, that it was more complicated. Can we say that Mapplethorpe’s work is documentary or fetishistic? Maybe, but at the same time he put black men into a tradition of portraiture to which they’ve never had access before.2

Ligon’s subtlety in staking a racial position with Notes on the Margin of the Black Book is a bold reframing of Mapplethorpe’s own defiance of norms. Yet the project fascinates, in part, because its complexities allow it to rise above a simple exercise in identity-oriented art. Today, the quotes Ligon gathered are like the voices at a raucous neighborhood meeting. “Color is not a human or personal reality; it is a political reality,” says James Baldwin. “I felt like a freak,” says Ken Moody, one of Mapplethorpe’s models. “People who look at these pictures become addicts and spread AIDS,” says someone named Rita Burke.

Almost all of Ligon’s paintings, prints and videos (the last medium is not included here, though a recent video is on display at New York’s Museum of Modern Art throughout the run of the Whitney show) are based on appropriation of some sort—mostly of text, but (as with Mapplethorpe) often images as well. A kind of polyphony is the result, even when Ligon is quoting just a single author. One of the most mysterious and magnetic qualities of his work is its capacity to be endlessly reread, its interpretations changing continually over time. This is very different from merely reflecting the era in which it was made. The voices in Ligon’s work sustain disagreement and argue gracefully among themselves. They make a virtue of uncertainty.

AMONG THE MOST POWERFUL pieces in the exhibition are three large paintings from the “Stranger” series, begun in 1996 and accounting for nearly 200 works produced over 13 years. The series appropriates excerpts from James Baldwin’s 1953 essay “Stranger in the Village.” Ligon has used texts by Zora Neale Hurston and Gertrude Stein, the critic Richard Dyer and the comedian Richard Pryor. Yet Baldwin has particular resonance for Ligon, not only because he was also black and gay but because he emphasized the role of language in creating the “legends” (a Baldwin term) that we make of one another. “Stranger in the Village,” for instance, relates the author’s experience in a small Swiss hamlet, where children, struck by his novelty, touched his hair with fascination or ran after him shouting “Neger!” Baldwin ruminates on what it means to be perceived as black in the village and in America, writing, “The root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.”

Some of the quotes taken from Baldwin’s essay are visible in the paintings—Ligon uses the first or last lines, or something in the middle—but most are not. The artist repeatedly stenciled the text in black oil stick, layering in coal dust. He proceeded in regular lines, from top to bottom. The letters rose from the surface and the text thickened until it was nearly illegible. Ligon has said he chose coal dust because he was looking for something with a literal weight. Catching the light and making the raised letters glint like gems, coal dust reminded him of Andy Warhol’s diamond dust. But coal can also be seen to have racial overtones, as in the phrase “coal black,” which in the early 20th century came to be used as a slur.

Ligon used the same technique, and text, in the diptych Untitled (Conclusion), 2004. Walking from one side to the other of this large (90-by-144-inch) painting, you can see letters, carved out through shadows from an overhead light, announce themselves even as they sink back into the oil and coal. Within the carefully built up and stenciled lines, you are able to decipher words here and there, even a phrase—“Americans have made themselves notorious,” for example. Ligon challenges viewers to see race, and to see beyond it, through a reduced palette of mostly black and/or white, and through his technique of erasing even as he writes. “There are a lot of things in our culture that seem clear,” said Ligon in an interview at his studio. “But I think what the paintings are trying to do is to slow down reading, to present a difficulty, to present something that is not so easily consumed and clear.” 3

The generous and judicious installation, proceeding mostly chronologically through 10 galleries, also organizes Ligon’s work by theme and series. From his earliest efforts, Ligon’s exceptional balancing of form and content, humor and wrath, and high and low is apparent. The show opens with a room of text-based paintings that the artist began in 1985, incising phrases from letters to gay porn magazines into layers of impasto. At the time, Ligon was working nights as a legal proofreader. Inundated with text, he made the imaginative leap of incorporating it into his paintings, which had previously been gestural abstractions.

A text in an oil-on-paper painting from 1988 echoes the tone of the teacher who wrote that end-of-year report on Ligon. In stencil, it quotes curator Ned Rifkin on Martin Puryear, as reported in a New York Times article that year: “There is a consciousness we all have that he is a Black American artist but I think his work is really superior and stands on its own.” Aside from its condescension, the statement gets under the skin because, in perhaps more veiled terms, similar things have been written about Ligon’s work over the years. Even recently, Peter Schjeldahl, writing in the Mar. 21, 2011, New Yorker, observed, “Ligon deserves honor for foregrounding, in the famously liberal but chronically lily-white art world, voices such as those of Hurston, [Gwendolyn] Brooks, and James Baldwin”—as if honor accrues to Ligon for merely representing his race. (Does he not deserve honor for quoting Stein?) Ligon is not simply transcribing these authors’ words and sticking them on museum walls; nor is he being “combative,” a term Schjeldahl uses earlier in his review.

In 1990, the artist began a breakthrough series of paintings on doors, undertaken after time spent contemplating an old door in his studio. Black all-capital oil-stick letters on a white-primed wooden ground read, “I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background,” taken from Hurston’s 1928 essay “How It Feels to Be Colored Me.” Ligon arranged the stencils freehand, guided only by horizontal pencil lines, and repeated the text across and down the 80-inch-high and 30-inch-wide door. Toward the bottom the letters crowd and bump up against one another, like thoughts in a busy mind. Ligon is a brilliant reader, selecting and reworking texts to shape his own interpretation of the world. “In the early door paintings . . . text goes from legibility to illegibility to black crisp words on a white ground, [serving] to metaphorically resonate with what the text is speaking about,” Rothkopf told me. “The form is really informing the content.” Ligon maintained the door format as he continued the series on canvas, using other quotes from Hurston, Jean Genet, Jesse Jackson and rapper Ice Cube. One work from the series, Black Like Me #2 (1992), now hangs in the Obama White House, borrowed from the Hirshhorn Museum. The repeating text, “All traces of the Griffin I had been were wiped from existence,” is taken from white journalist John Howard Griffin’s 1961 eponymous account of passing as a black man in the South.

The apparent simplicity of Ligon’s stencil paintings masks their depth. Ligon observed that while the “Stranger” and door paintings move toward abstraction, they speak more about how culture constantly modulates as time passes. “I think it’s thinking about things that go in and out of [cultural] consciousness,” he said, referring to the changing reception of Hurston’s and Baldwin’s writings. Although some time intervened between the door series and the “Stranger” paintings, they feel like close siblings.

Ligon grappled with the subjects of socially constructed identity and American racism more directly in Runaways (1993), a witty, deft, poignant rewriting of runaway slave broadsides. For this portfolio of 16-by-12-inch lithographs, 10 altogether, he had friends help him come up with descriptions of himself, which he then recast as the type of notices that 19th-century slave owners posted after a slave escaped. “Ran away, a man named Glenn. He has almost no hair. He has cat-eye glasses, medium-dark skin, cute eyebrows. . . . He talks out of the side of his mouth and looks at you sideways. Sometimes he has a loud laugh, and lately I’ve noticed he refers to himself as ‘mother.’” Also in 1993, Ligon produced a related suite of nine photoetchings (each 28 by 21 inches), Narratives, that likewise wryly mixes autobiography and history by drawing on the archaic voice and look of slave narratives. One sheet reads, “The Life and Adventures of Glenn Ligon/A Negro; who was sent to be educated amongst white people in the year 1966 when only about six years of age and has continued to fraternize with them to the present time.” In their adept, witty bending of genre, Ligon’s Runaways and Narratives take great liberties with the constraints of identity politics, even as they speak brutally and exactly about the legacy of slavery and the fear of difference.

Like so many of his contemporaries—artists such as Lorna Simpson, Janine Antoni and Byron Kim, who were also included in the 1993 “Biennial with a Social Conscience,” as the New York Times dubbed it, and “a saturnalia of political correctness” as it was deemed by Time’s Robert Hughes—Ligon and his work are often discussed in terms of identity, end of story. Yet the artist has also tapped into other traditions and concerns, exploring, for example, the seriality of Minimalism, the use of texts as found objects, and language-based abstraction. Rothkopf sees multiple links between Ligon and Jasper Johns. “If you look beyond the stencil as a vehicle for putting text on, it’s about how language and numbers can function within a work of art,” Rothkopf said. “Questions about the difference between reading and looking are very germane to Glenn’s work.” IN 1993, LIGON EMBARKED on a series of lush, chromatically rich, text-based paintings that seem to be equally about visual pleasure and the limits of speech. Quoting from sensationalist stand-up routines by the popular black comedian Richard Pryor, Ligon stenciled the words in bright colors against fields of contrasting hues. The paintings look a bit like Richard Prince’s joke paintings, a series of transcriptions of deadpan one-liners that Prince began in the mid-’80s. But Ligon’s joke paintings are more personal. Pryor was willing to make public, on prime-time television no less, the most outrageous, often highly sexual, private thoughts or in-jokes about African-American culture. This made him something like Mapplethorpe for Ligon, dramatizing socially taboo subjects. Ligon “performs” Pryor for museumgoers, who stare at the paintings in isolation, rather than, like the comedian’s audiences, laughing, cringing or blowing their noses in concert halls.

Several of the Pryor paintings, from 1995 and 2004, revisit the following quote by the comedian: “I remember when black wasn’t beautiful. Black men come through the neighborhood saying ‘Black is beautiful! Africa is your home! Be proud to be black!’ My parents go ‘That nigger crazy.’” Pryor’s anecdote exists as fiction and truth, joke and observation; it reflects on the contradictions of color pride. In a 2004 painting with a dark purple ground, the joke’s setup is stenciled in blue, while the punch line is in orange, which tracks into the purple, dissolving the clarity of the letters. As in the joke, it is complex, vibrant color—not just “black”—that is beautiful.

“Beauty was a complicated thing as we talked about identity and race. [It] wasn’t allowed in the critical dialogue, which often made beauty seem irrelevant or inappropriate,” said Thelma Golden in an interview. Director of the Studio Museum in Harlem, Golden was curator of the 1994 “Black Male” show when she was at the Whitney and has been a longtime friend of Ligon’s. “This retrospective lets us see how important beauty was as a strategy, device, tool, weapon for artists like Glenn, who were esthetic innovators and operated in that fine balance between content and form.” Ligon’s paintings from the ’90s allow the eye and mind to play with multiple levels. At the retrospective, they also lead directly to Ligon’s most recent work: the “Stranger” paintings and a final group of four neons.

The neon works were prompted by Ligon’s curiosity about whether it was possible to make “black” neon. The owner of a shop below his studio, Lite Brite Neon, said no, but suggested painting the front of a tube black, with the light cast onto the wall behind. Using this method, Ligon had Lite Brite craft several versions of the word “America,” in which the stencil-like letters glow on the wall or, in one case, only at their joints, which were left unpainted. The perception of “black” here depends on “white” light—a characteristic twist in keeping with Ligon’s career-long inflection of materials and meaning.

The latest neon, Warm Broad Glow II (2011) reads, in lower-case letters, “negro sunshine.” An understated yet loaded phrase, it is installed in the front window of the museum. The word “negro” challenges viewers to contemplate the ways that language carries with it the prejudices of the past. At the same time, the piece projects a qualified buoyancy of mood. The phrase is taken from Gertrude Stein’s “Melanctha” novella, one of her Three Lives (1909). In the novella, Stein’s language surrounding race seems decidedly retrograde—the dark-skinned character is dumb, coarse and promiscuous, while the light-skinned Melanctha is smart and brooding. Yet Ligon reads Stein as engaging in a knowing play with stereotypes and expectations, and offers both homage and critique.

From start to finish, the retrospective reveals Ligon to be true to his method, a devoted reader who repeatedly returns to a personal canon of texts. It also shows him to be a quintessentially American artist—in his humor, his delight in texts high and low, and his relentless mining of national history. Johns famously prescribed, “Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else to it.” With a keen ability to sustain contradiction and doubt, Ligon adopts this democratic tinkering spirit, fashioning a finely wrought syllabus of America.

1 The electricity of viewing these images in a museum has burned off a bit. Mapplethorpe published Black Book in 1986, and in 1989, his name became synonymous with shock art (for some) and censorship (for others) when the Corcoran Gallery of Art, under congressional pressure, canceled an NEA-funded traveling Mapplethorpe retrospective.

2 This and several other interviews, as well as Ligon’s own lucid writings, are collected in Yourself in the World, edited by Scott Rothkopf, forthcoming from Yale University Press. 3 Unless otherwise indicated, all quotes by Ligon and others are taken from interviews with the author conducted during February and March 2011. “Glenn Ligon: America,” which closes at the Whitney June 15, travels to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art [Oct. 23, 2011–Jan. 22, 2012] and the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth [February-May 2012]. It is accompanied by a 302-page catalogueby Scott Rothkopf, with contributions by Hilton Als, Okwui Enwezor, Saidya Hartman, Bennett Simpson and Franklin Sirmans, and a conversation between the artist and Thelma Golden.

  Source: Art in America / Carly Berwick. Link: Stranger in America Illustration: Glenn Ligon [USA] (b 1960) ~ 'Double Mirror', 2015. Ten-color screenprint on rag paper in graphite-wash frame (15 x 23 cm). Moderator: ART HuNTER. ✓ Facebook Page →  ✓ Pinterest board → 

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45. Done vs Wanna Do

The things you have already done in bold, the things you would like to do in italics

What do you want to do/did already?

01. Bought everyone in the pub a drink

02. Swam with wild dolphins

03. Climbed a mountain

04. Taken a Ferrari for a test drive

05. Been inside the Great Pyramid

06. Held a tarantula

07. Taken a candlelit bath with someone

08. Said ‘I love you’ and meant it

09. Hugged a tree

10. Done a striptease

11. Bungee jumped

12. Visited Paris

13. Watched a lightning storm at sea

14. Stayed up all night long, and watch the sun rise

15. Seen the Northern Lights

16. Gone to a huge sports game

17. Walked the stairs to the top of the leaning Tower of Pisa

18. Grown and eaten your own vegetables

19. Touched an iceberg

20. Slept under the stars

21. Changed a baby’s diaper

22. Taken a trip in a hot air balloon

23. Watched a meteor shower

24. Gotten drunk on champagne

25. Given more than you can afford to charity

26. Looked up at the night sky through a telescope

27. Had an uncontrollable giggling fit at the worst possible moment

28. Had a food fight

29. Bet on a winning horse

30. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill

31. Asked out a stranger

32. Had a snowball fight

33. Photocopied your bottom on the office photocopier

34. Screamed as loudly as you possibly can

35. Held a lamb

36. Enacted a favorite fantasy

37. Taken a midnight skinny dip

38. Taken an ice cold bath

39. Had a meaningful conversation with a beggar

40. Seen a total eclipse

41. Ridden a roller coaster

42. Hit a home run

43. Fit three weeks miraculously into three days

44. Danced like a fool and not cared who was looking

45. Adopted an accent for an entire day

46. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors

47. Actually felt happy about your life, even for just a moment

48. Had two hard drives for your computer

49. Visited all 50 states

50. Loved your job for all accounts

51. Taken care of someone who was shit faced

52. Had enough money to be truly satisfied

53. Had amazing friends

54. Danced with a stranger in a foreign country

55. Watched wild whales

56. Stolen a sign

57. Backpacked in Europe

58. Taken a road-trip

59. Rock climbing

60. Lied to foreign government’s official in that country to avoid notice

61. Midnight walk on the beach

62. Sky diving

63. Visited Ireland

64. Been heartbroken longer than you were actually in love

65. In a restaurant, sat at a stranger’s table and had a meal with them

66. Visited Japan

67. Benchpressed your own weight

68. Milked a cow

69. Alphabetized your records

70. Pretended to be a superhero

71. Sung karaoke

72. Lounged around in bed all day

73. Posed nude in front of strangers

74. Scuba diving

75. Got it on to “Let’s Get It On” by Marvin Gaye

76. Kissed in the rain

77. Played in the mud

78. Played in the rain

79. Gone to a drive-in theater

80. Done something you should regret, but don’t regret it

81. Visited the Great Wall of China

82. Discovered that someone who’s not supposed to have known about your blog has discovered your blog

83. Dropped Windows in favor of something better

84. Started a business

85. Fallen in love and not had your heart broken

86. Toured ancient sites

87. Taken a martial arts class

88. Swordfought for the honor of a woman

89. Played D&D for more than 6 hours straight

90. Gotten married

91. Been in a movie

92. Crashed a party

93. Loved someone you shouldn’t have

94. Kissed someone so passionately it made them dizzy

95. Gotten divorced

96. Had sex at the office

97. Gone without food for 5 days

98. Made cookies from scratch

99. Won first prize in a costume contest

100. Ridden a gondola in Venice

101. Gotten a tattoo

102. Found that the texture of some materials can turn you on

103. Rafted the Snake River

104. Been on television news programs as an “expert”

105. Got flowers for no reason

106. Masturbated in a public place

107. Got so drunk you don’t remember anything

108. Been addicted to some form of illegal drug

109. Performed on stage

110. Been to Las Vegas

111. Recorded music

112. Eaten shark

113. Had a one-night stand

114. Gone to Thailand

115. Seen Siouxsie live

116. Bought a house

117. Been in a combat zone

118. Buried one/both of your parents

119. Shaved or waxed your pubic hair off

120. Been on a cruise ship

121. Spoken more than one language fluently

122. Gotten into a fight while attempting to defend someone (verbal, not physical)

123. Bounced a check

124. Performed in Rocky Horror

125. Read – and understood – your credit report

126. Raised children

127. Recently bought and played with a favorite childhood toy

128. Followed your favorite band/singer on tour

129. Created and named your own constellation of stars

130. Taken an exotic bicycle tour in a foreign country

131. Found out something significant that your ancestors did

132. Called or written your Congress person

133. Picked up and moved to another city to just start over

134. …more than once?

135. Walked the Golden Gate Bridge

136. Sang loudly in the car, and didn’t stop when you knew someone was looking

137. Had an abortion or your female partner did

138. Had plastic surgery

139. Survived an accident that you shouldn’t have survived.

140. Wrote articles for a large publication

141. Lost over 100 pounds

142. Held someone while they were having a flashback

143. Piloted an airplane

144. Petted a stingray

145. Broken someone’s heart

146. Helped an animal give birth

147. Been fired or laid off from a job

148. Won money on a T.V. game show

149. Broken a bone

150. Killed a human being

151. Gone on an African photo safari

152. Ridden a motorcycle

153. Driven any land vehicle at a speed of greater than 100mph

154. Had a body part of yours below the neck pierced

155. Fired a rifle, shotgun, or pistol

156. Eaten mushrooms that were gathered in the wild

157. Ridden a horse

158. Had major surgery

159. Had sex on a moving train

160. Had a snake as a pet

161. Hiked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon

162. Slept through an entire flight: takeoff, flight, and landing

163. Slept for more than 30 hours over the course of 48 hours

164. Visited more foreign countries than U.S. states

165. Visited all 7 continents

166. Taken a canoe trip that lasted more than 2 days

167. Eaten kangaroo meat

168. Fallen in love at an ancient Mayan burial ground (wha?)

169. Been a sperm or egg donor

170. Eaten sushi

171. Had your picture in the newspaper

172. Had 2 (or more) healthy romantic relationships for over a year in your lifetime (would prefer just one, but yeah would like one to last)

173. Changed someone’s mind about something you care deeply about

174. Gotten someone fired for their actions

175. Gone back to school (to finish college, only made one semester)

176. Parasailed

177. Changed your name

178. Petted a cockroach

179. Eaten fried green tomatoes

180. Read The Iliad

181. Selected one “important” author who you missed in school, and read

182. Dined in a restaurant and stolen silverware, plates, cups because your apartment needed them

183. …and gotten 86′ed from the restaurant because you did it so many times, they figured out it was you

184. Taught yourself an art from scratch

185. Killed and prepared an animal for eating

186. Apologized to someone years after inflicting the hurt

187. Skipped all your school reunions (honestly don’t plan on going)

188. Communicated with someone without sharing a common spoken language

189. Been elected to public office

190. Written your own computer language (more like made up words with friends that we use frequently, lots of inside jokes and vocab of our own)

191. Thought to yourself that you’re living your dream

192. Had to put someone you love into hospice care

193. Built your own PC from parts

194. Sold your own artwork to someone who didn’t know you

195. Had a booth at a street fair

196: Dyed your hair

197: Been a DJ

198: Found out someone was going to dump you via LiveJournal

199: Written your own role playing game

200: Been arrested

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Spinal Fixation Systems – Spine Implants – Spine Company

RD MEDICAL is dedicated to supply the best implants & instruments to the market and founded by mechanical and materials engineers who are experienced in designing and manufacturing fields, as well by the consultancy of clinical experts. Company serves as an OEM and takes part within biomedical industry with its innovative and high quality products. PRODORTH products are designed, manufactured and developed in our organization, the results of which are always appreciated by well-known surgeons.

PRODORTH began its journey with the principle of “Human First” and always proceed in this way.

Knowledge combined with technology and innovator approach

We respect the know-how and appreciate its value. Some of PRODORTH products are pending for patent.

We always see the great results of integrating advanced scientific methods to guarantee better health recovery experience.

About Us

Since the establishment of RD MEDICAL, communication and service quality have been significantly improved with distributors.

We always follow new approaches and develop advanced methods to accommodate our products with the top notch technologies of the field in order to guarantee the satisfaction and approval of surgeons. Therefore, research and development are major factors in our dynamic organization which requires our involvement in interdisciplinary studies. We also conducted meticulous researches to improve our products based on multiple experiences of attending surgical operations.

Our mission

Providing top notch detailed oriented products which contribute to the success of surgical operations and proved to be satisfactory to surgeons along with its effect on reducing the healing time of patients. We guarantee the continuity of the excellence of our products through working with a dynamic and experienced engineering team to satisfy the need of high-quality products and fast supply in the sector.

Our vision

We aim to provide our service to the worldwide medical sector and gain an international recognition of PRODORTH brand as one of the major surgical suppliers with the determination to enlarge our product line to accommodate the ever-rising need of the medical sector.

Quality Management

In our opinion, “A sustainable quality mentality” is the most critical fact for the permanency of a company. The main approach of RD MEDICAL is to maintain high quality products for the long run, an approach which aims at earning trust and building loyalty with our customers who we aim to serve for the long term.

All our manufacturing processes are followed up and managed in accordance with the medical device directive 93/42/EEC, ISO 13485:2016 and CE standards. At the same time, the transition to the 2017/745/EC Medical Device Regulation (MDR)  is in progress.

Instead of using these certificates just as keys for trade, we prefer managing our business according the requirements of these systems. ISO 13485:2016 Quality Management System is efficiently adapted on the organization of RD MEDICAL and provides a 100% traceability from initial to final product.

Our main task with respect to Quality Management  is ensuring a complete control in a reliable and continuous production quality with machining, polishing, washing, color anodizing and laser marking units within our organization.

​Biomechanical and biocompatibility tests were performed in accordance with ASTM and ISO standards which are required to launch our products to the market reliably in addition, all Prodorth products are firstly used by our surgeons and only launched to market after  the succesful clinical outcomes are obtained.

​​Any healthcare professional (e.g. surgeon using the products) who has a complaint or is dissatisfied with quality, identification, reliability, safety, efficacy and/or performance of Prodorth Systems, are responsible from informing either Prodorth or the distributor.

Simple Technigues, Sophisticated Solutions

We reflect the value of our brand to our products and we would like to see the doctors feel our effort of understanding and solving their problems.   High Quality and innovation are the first details you will notice about PRODORTH products.

R&D / Innovation

RD Medical has identified the problems during surgical operations and contacted surgeons on this issue. These feed-backs and internal discussions, analysis and wide researches provide new approaches which leads to new ideas.

Research and development, to guarantee the production of high quality products will be always the priority of RD Medical to which “R&D” initials were adopted.

There are patent pending products of PRODORTH such as “PLIF Cage with Screw”.

Product Specifications

Products & Raw materials​

Material selection is one of the most important point for implants.

Titanium Alloy (Ti6Al4V-Grade 5 / ISO 5832-3 / ASTM F136) and PEEK (Polyether-ether-kethon / ASTM F2026) are used as raw materials for all PRODORTH products and these are all originated from EU and USA. Both material are biocompatible and adequate for long term use

(C = Permanent (> 30 days)).​

PEEK material is a remarkable raw material with its unique properties;​

•Biocompatible

•It does not cause any lesional problems.

•Has elastical and hardness features near to bone tissue.•Titanium alloy materials give an opaque image under X-Ray, besides PEEK materials is able to be viewed transparently. This provides a more efficient follow-up for the bone fusion through the implant material at post-operative duration

SPINE DEVICES – SPINE IMPLANTS

POSTERIOR FIXATION SYSTEMS

Thoracolumbar Pedicle Screws

·         Prodorth Pedicle Screws have a unique design with V-Shaped highly sharp threads, as well as a polished surface which results in succesful clinical outcomes.

·         As it's proven so far, there is a direct relationship between the profile and the design of the pedicle screws with the pull-out strength, hence a strict quality control process is performed on the threads during the production.

·         Stronger connection with head part by milled surface feature.

·         More reliable tightening with the torx design of setscrew. Reverse angled setscrew thread design.

·         Easy initiative insertion.

·         Mono threaded and double threaded options are availabe on request. Double threaded Pedicle Screws have been designed for reducing the number of turns required for a complete implantation which reduce the operation time in result.

·         Titanium / Ti6Al4V (ASTM F 136) is used as raw materials for all PRODORTH pedicle screws and these are all originated only from reliable partners in USA.

Prodorth Posterior Fixation System is used for stabilizing the disorders in spine. The system is composed of  different type of pedicle screws, rods, connectors and some other supplementary elements.

This system is completely manufactured from Ti6Al4V (ISO 5832-3) material. (Except the PEEK rods which are made of PEEK material/ASTM F2026)

PRODORTH Posterior Fixation System has been used since 2013 in domestic market (Turkey), 2014 in EU countries, and Asia-Pacific region and since 2015 in South America and Middle-East. We continue our journey by expanding in new markets with an increasing satisfaction from the surgeons.​

Within recent years, the system has been developed and revised according to feed-backs from surgeons and customers, which led to establishing a reliable system that corresponds to the scientific requirements and the  finest technical details demanded by surgeons.

Mechanism of Action for Prodorth Posterior Fixation Implant System is implantation of the system into the vertebras and connection with rods and transverse connectors which generates an efficient  support to spine by a rigid construction in order to provide stabilization of spinal segments in skeletally mature patients as an adjunct to fusion in the treatment of the acute and chronic instabilities or deformities of the cervical, thoracic, lumbar, and sacral spine.

In other words, it provides stabilization to promote fusion following reduction of fracture/dislocation or trauma in the spinal junction and the spine.

INSTRUMENTS PROPERTIES​

·         Made of special stainless steel raw material with ultra high corrosion resistance and silicone appropriate for medical applications.

·         Besides the high corrosion resistance, they are also appropriate for all kind of sterilization types including steam sterilization at high temperatures. (Up to 137° degree)

·         Critical instruments such as screw drivers, nut drivers are offered double pieces in the container in case of any failure or falling on the floor. Hence the surgeon will be able to continue surgery without wasting time.

·         Special designed rod cutters provides less burrs and easier cutting are available on request.

·         Entire items of Prodorth Instrumentation are CE certified.

·         We offer a completely suitable instruments for degenerative, as well as deformity cases. It's possible to add or exclude the required instruments according to our customers' needs.

ROD & CONNECTORS

Linear & Multiaxial

PRODORTH Connectors have been designed to provide the most stable construction with different sizes.

We offer mainly two types of connectors as “Linear Connectors” and “Multiaxial Connectors” as well as various designs considering the needs of our clients.

PLIF PEEK CAGES

Regular PLIF - Expandable PLIF - PLIF with Screw

Standard and Expandable types  besides various sizes are available

·         Made of PEEK (ASTM F2026) which is a polymer based composite material and Ti6Al4V (ASTM F 136) materials.

·         Holding inferior and superior areas strongly with appropriate surface design.

·         X-Ray Markers for easy visualization during implantation.

·         Toothed surface design to prevent migration

·         Easy to implant with sharp ended design.​

·         Stopping system during expansion.

·         Sufficient space for fusion.

·         Anatomical geometry

PLIF PEEK CAGE with THREAD

·         PEEK material (ASTM F2026) and Titanium (ASTM F 136) is combined through the creation journey of ProMole. As it’s accepted by health authorities, PEEK does not cause any lesional problems in addition its elasticity and hardness features are quite near to bone tissue.

·         Since ProMole has the titanium threads on the tip and the marker pins behind, surgeon can follow ProMole during surgery very efficiently.

·         ProMole can be connected  with its instruments very easily .

·         Once the internal appratus of its inserter placed through the inserter, it can rotate the thread at the front.

·         When the thread is rotated clockwise, ProMole will be pulling itself into the intervertebral area. Likewise it is able to be unscrewed by rotating the thread anticlockwise. These specifications of it provides a more reliable and easy implantation considering the traditional PLIF procedure

·         PROMOLE® Cages provides a gradually placement.

·         Toothed surface feature for best-holding the inferior and superior areas.

·         PEEK material  is originated  from EVONIK Industries Germany.

·         X-ray marker pins for the visibility.

·         Various sizes are available on request.

TLIF PEEK CAGE

Rotatable Design

Prodorth TLIF Cage is intended for single use only and restore the degenerative disc pathologies.

Prodorth TLIF Cage  is made of PEEK (ASTM F2026) which is a polymer based composite material and Ti6Al4V (ASTM F 136) material.

·         PRODORTH Tlif Cages ® provides an uninterrupted guidance during operation.

·         Circular toothed surface feature for a better holding on the inferior and superior areas.

·         It has the capability of movement to both directions.

·         It can be fixed by rotating the wheel behind Inserter, and it is easily released by loosening.

·         This provides an easy positioning as required.

·         After discectomy, the wheel is rotated clockwise while the TLIF cage is positioned upright and it’s placed into intervertebral area so on.

·         After that the wheel is loosened and the ProDolphin is released as at the required position.

·         All the procedure is performed by a single instrument.

CERVICAL DISC PROSTHESIS

One Piece Design

·         Completely made of titanium and PEEK.

·         PEEK material at the inner mechanism, provides a super-smooth surface for a perfect motion capability.

·         PEEK cover which is shaped as a tube, has been positioned around the inner mechanism in order to prevent the bone-fusion through the inside of disc prosthesis.

·         One-piece design.

·         Dark anodized and rough surface options are available

·         Physical capability of Flexion Extension - Lateral Bending – Rotation. Minimizing the scratching by the coating.

·         Special design for the most effective movement ability

·         Reliable construction for best-holding on endplates.

·         Reliable and stable connection with the instrument. Appropriate for Smith-Robinson approach.

·         Ti6Al4V (Grade 5) is used as raw materials for all PRODORTH disc prosthesis and these are all originated only from reliable partners in USA. PEEK material is supplied from EVONIK INDUSTRIES Germany. All certificates are available on request.

PRODORTH Cervical Disc Prosthesis is an implantation system used for eleminating the complaints of the patients which rise from the herniation at discs, traumas or any disorders on cervical spine.

PROCORAL V.2  is composed of 2 plates working separately and connected each other by a kind of a particular pin, besides a special designed PEEK system is used at the inner mechanism to obtain a more efficient movement capability.

Using ProCoral V.2  cervical disc prosthesis instead of traditional fusion cages minimize the Heterotopic Ossification, with its capability to make motions to various directions  and in result it has more similar specifications to an healthy disc.

ProCoral V.2 is designed as Metal - PEEK - Metal (M-P-M)  construction with various sizes and footprints. One piece design of it, provides an easier surgical tecnique as well as the great fixation with its inserter. Furthermore its wear resistance is pretty higher than competitors with its M-P-M design and for long-term, better results have been obtained on post-operative period. The Prodorth’s top-notch technology “PEEK tube” cover around the inner mechanism prevent the undesired bone fusion into the disc prosthesis.

CERVICAL ARTIFICIAL DISC – TOTAL DISC REPLACEMENT

·         Completely made of titanium and PEEK.

·         PEEK material at the inner mechanism, provides a super-smooth surface for a perfect motion capability.

·         PEEK cover which is shaped as a tube, has been positioned around the inner mechanism in order to prevent the bone-fusion through the inside of disc prosthesis.

·         One-piece design.

·         Dark anodized and rough surface options are available

·         Physical capability of Flexion Extension - Lateral Bending – Rotation. Minimizing the scratching by the coating.

·         Special design for the most effective movement ability

·         Reliable construction for best-holding on endplates.

·         Reliable and stable connection with the instrument. Appropriate for Smith-Robinson approach.

·         Ti6Al4V (Grade 5) is used as raw materials for all PRODORTH disc prosthesis and these are all originated only from reliable partners in USA. PEEK material is supplied from EVONIK INDUSTRIES Germany. All certificates are available on request.

CERVICAL PEEK CAGES​

PROYSTER®

Cervical Peek Cage provides a great fixation with its blade, which makes it a "Stand-Alone Interbody Cage" possible to be used without a plate.

One of the best advantage of Proyster® is offering a very simple application which is usally found pretty user-friendly by the surgeons.

Proyster® Peek Cage with mono / double blade options and regular cervical peek cages are available on request.

·         Toothed surface is designed to prevent migration.

·         Anatomical geometry.

·         X-Ray Markers provide an easy placement.

·         Made of PEEK material, originated  from EVONIK Industries Germany. Titanium alloy materials give opaque image under X-Ray, however PEEK materials is able to be seen transparently. This provides efficient following of the bone fusion through the implant at the intended periods.

·         Blades for a more reliable holding between the endplates.

·         Maximum Strong Construction / Fusion Space ratio.

·         Various sizes and footprints are available.

CERVICAL CAGES

·         Toothed surface is designed to prevent migration.

·         Anatomical geometry.

·         X-Ray Markers provide an easy placement.

·         Made of PEEK material, originated  from EVONIK Industries Germany. Titanium alloy materials give opaque image under X-Ray, however PEEK materials is able to be seen transparently. This provides efficient following of the bone fusion through the implant at the intended periods.

·         Blades for a more reliable holding between the endplates.

·         Maximum Strong Construction / Fusion Space ratio.

·         Various sizes and footprints are available.

Distributorship

One of the initial goals of PRODORTH is supplying highest quality  implants with the finest conditions to our customers. Therefore we pay a great attention to our products, a policy which stems from our belief that all people deserve to receive a topnotch health care.

Thus we always aim to provide an excellent service to our customers as we are keen to establish a long term relationship with them. PRODORTH services are available in various locations worldwide. Agents and distributors' information is kept confidential with us. For further information please don't hesitate to contact us.

Our customer service will be happy to answer all your queries.​

Distribution details;

* Distribution zone

* Discount rates

* Training with your staff and technical support

* Contents of our goods

* Distribution contract

Please contact us.

Source: spine company, spine device, pedicle screw

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Spinal Fixation Systems – Spine Implants – Spine Company

RD MEDICAL is dedicated to supply the best implants & instruments to the market and founded by mechanical and materials engineers who are experienced in designing and manufacturing fields, as well by the consultancy of clinical experts. Company serves as an OEM and takes part within biomedical industry with its innovative and high quality products. PRODORTH products are designed, manufactured and developed in our organization, the results of which are always appreciated by well-known surgeons.

PRODORTH began its journey with the principle of “Human First” and always proceed in this way.

Knowledge combined with technology and innovator approach

We respect the know-how and appreciate its value. Some of PRODORTH products are pending for patent.

We always see the great results of integrating advanced scientific methods to guarantee better health recovery experience.

About Us

Since the establishment of RD MEDICAL, communication and service quality have been significantly improved with distributors.

We always follow new approaches and develop advanced methods to accommodate our products with the top notch technologies of the field in order to guarantee the satisfaction and approval of surgeons. Therefore, research and development are major factors in our dynamic organization which requires our involvement in interdisciplinary studies. We also conducted meticulous researches to improve our products based on multiple experiences of attending surgical operations.

Our mission

Providing top notch detailed oriented products which contribute to the success of surgical operations and proved to be satisfactory to surgeons along with its effect on reducing the healing time of patients. We guarantee the continuity of the excellence of our products through working with a dynamic and experienced engineering team to satisfy the need of high-quality products and fast supply in the sector.

Our vision

We aim to provide our service to the worldwide medical sector and gain an international recognition of PRODORTH brand as one of the major surgical suppliers with the determination to enlarge our product line to accommodate the ever-rising need of the medical sector.

Quality Management

In our opinion, “A sustainable quality mentality” is the most critical fact for the permanency of a company. The main approach of RD MEDICAL is to maintain high quality products for the long run, an approach which aims at earning trust and building loyalty with our customers who we aim to serve for the long term.

All our manufacturing processes are followed up and managed in accordance with the medical device directive 93/42/EEC, ISO 13485:2016 and CE standards. At the same time, the transition to the 2017/745/EC Medical Device Regulation (MDR)  is in progress.

Instead of using these certificates just as keys for trade, we prefer managing our business according the requirements of these systems. ISO 13485:2016 Quality Management System is efficiently adapted on the organization of RD MEDICAL and provides a 100% traceability from initial to final product.

Our main task with respect to Quality Management  is ensuring a complete control in a reliable and continuous production quality with machining, polishing, washing, color anodizing and laser marking units within our organization.

​Biomechanical and biocompatibility tests were performed in accordance with ASTM and ISO standards which are required to launch our products to the market reliably in addition, all Prodorth products are firstly used by our surgeons and only launched to market after  the succesful clinical outcomes are obtained.

​​Any healthcare professional (e.g. surgeon using the products) who has a complaint or is dissatisfied with quality, identification, reliability, safety, efficacy and/or performance of Prodorth Systems, are responsible from informing either Prodorth or the distributor.

Simple Technigues, Sophisticated Solutions

We reflect the value of our brand to our products and we would like to see the doctors feel our effort of understanding and solving their problems.   High Quality and innovation are the first details you will notice about PRODORTH products.

R&D / Innovation

RD Medical has identified the problems during surgical operations and contacted surgeons on this issue. These feed-backs and internal discussions, analysis and wide researches provide new approaches which leads to new ideas.

Research and development, to guarantee the production of high quality products will be always the priority of RD Medical to which “R&D” initials were adopted.

There are patent pending products of PRODORTH such as “PLIF Cage with Screw”.

Product Specifications

Products & Raw materials​

Material selection is one of the most important point for implants.

Titanium Alloy (Ti6Al4V-Grade 5 / ISO 5832-3 / ASTM F136) and PEEK (Polyether-ether-kethon / ASTM F2026) are used as raw materials for all PRODORTH products and these are all originated from EU and USA. Both material are biocompatible and adequate for long term use

(C = Permanent (> 30 days)).​

PEEK material is a remarkable raw material with its unique properties;​

•Biocompatible

•It does not cause any lesional problems.

•Has elastical and hardness features near to bone tissue.•Titanium alloy materials give an opaque image under X-Ray, besides PEEK materials is able to be viewed transparently. This provides a more efficient follow-up for the bone fusion through the implant material at post-operative duration

SPINE DEVICES – SPINE IMPLANTS

POSTERIOR FIXATION SYSTEMS

Thoracolumbar Pedicle Screws

·         Prodorth Pedicle Screws have a unique design with V-Shaped highly sharp threads, as well as a polished surface which results in succesful clinical outcomes.

·         As it's proven so far, there is a direct relationship between the profile and the design of the pedicle screws with the pull-out strength, hence a strict quality control process is performed on the threads during the production.

·         Stronger connection with head part by milled surface feature.

·         More reliable tightening with the torx design of setscrew. Reverse angled setscrew thread design.

·         Easy initiative insertion.

·         Mono threaded and double threaded options are availabe on request. Double threaded Pedicle Screws have been designed for reducing the number of turns required for a complete implantation which reduce the operation time in result.

·         Titanium / Ti6Al4V (ASTM F 136) is used as raw materials for all PRODORTH pedicle screws and these are all originated only from reliable partners in USA.

Prodorth Posterior Fixation System is used for stabilizing the disorders in spine. The system is composed of  different type of pedicle screws, rods, connectors and some other supplementary elements.

This system is completely manufactured from Ti6Al4V (ISO 5832-3) material. (Except the PEEK rods which are made of PEEK material/ASTM F2026)

PRODORTH Posterior Fixation System has been used since 2013 in domestic market (Turkey), 2014 in EU countries, and Asia-Pacific region and since 2015 in South America and Middle-East. We continue our journey by expanding in new markets with an increasing satisfaction from the surgeons.​

Within recent years, the system has been developed and revised according to feed-backs from surgeons and customers, which led to establishing a reliable system that corresponds to the scientific requirements and the  finest technical details demanded by surgeons.

Mechanism of Action for Prodorth Posterior Fixation Implant System is implantation of the system into the vertebras and connection with rods and transverse connectors which generates an efficient  support to spine by a rigid construction in order to provide stabilization of spinal segments in skeletally mature patients as an adjunct to fusion in the treatment of the acute and chronic instabilities or deformities of the cervical, thoracic, lumbar, and sacral spine.

In other words, it provides stabilization to promote fusion following reduction of fracture/dislocation or trauma in the spinal junction and the spine.

INSTRUMENTS PROPERTIES​

·         Made of special stainless steel raw material with ultra high corrosion resistance and silicone appropriate for medical applications.

·         Besides the high corrosion resistance, they are also appropriate for all kind of sterilization types including steam sterilization at high temperatures. (Up to 137° degree)

·         Critical instruments such as screw drivers, nut drivers are offered double pieces in the container in case of any failure or falling on the floor. Hence the surgeon will be able to continue surgery without wasting time.

·         Special designed rod cutters provides less burrs and easier cutting are available on request.

·         Entire items of Prodorth Instrumentation are CE certified.

·         We offer a completely suitable instruments for degenerative, as well as deformity cases. It's possible to add or exclude the required instruments according to our customers' needs.

ROD & CONNECTORS

Linear & Multiaxial

PRODORTH Connectors have been designed to provide the most stable construction with different sizes.

We offer mainly two types of connectors as “Linear Connectors” and “Multiaxial Connectors” as well as various designs considering the needs of our clients.

PLIF PEEK CAGES

Regular PLIF - Expandable PLIF - PLIF with Screw

Standard and Expandable types  besides various sizes are available

·         Made of PEEK (ASTM F2026) which is a polymer based composite material and Ti6Al4V (ASTM F 136) materials.

·         Holding inferior and superior areas strongly with appropriate surface design.

·         X-Ray Markers for easy visualization during implantation.

·         Toothed surface design to prevent migration

·         Easy to implant with sharp ended design.​

·         Stopping system during expansion.

·         Sufficient space for fusion.

·         Anatomical geometry

PLIF PEEK CAGE with THREAD

·         PEEK material (ASTM F2026) and Titanium (ASTM F 136) is combined through the creation journey of ProMole. As it’s accepted by health authorities, PEEK does not cause any lesional problems in addition its elasticity and hardness features are quite near to bone tissue.

·         Since ProMole has the titanium threads on the tip and the marker pins behind, surgeon can follow ProMole during surgery very efficiently.

·         ProMole can be connected  with its instruments very easily .

·         Once the internal appratus of its inserter placed through the inserter, it can rotate the thread at the front.

·         When the thread is rotated clockwise, ProMole will be pulling itself into the intervertebral area. Likewise it is able to be unscrewed by rotating the thread anticlockwise. These specifications of it provides a more reliable and easy implantation considering the traditional PLIF procedure

·         PROMOLE® Cages provides a gradually placement.

·         Toothed surface feature for best-holding the inferior and superior areas.

·         PEEK material  is originated  from EVONIK Industries Germany.

·         X-ray marker pins for the visibility.

·         Various sizes are available on request.

TLIF PEEK CAGE

Rotatable Design

Prodorth TLIF Cage is intended for single use only and restore the degenerative disc pathologies.

Prodorth TLIF Cage  is made of PEEK (ASTM F2026) which is a polymer based composite material and Ti6Al4V (ASTM F 136) material.

·         PRODORTH Tlif Cages ® provides an uninterrupted guidance during operation.

·         Circular toothed surface feature for a better holding on the inferior and superior areas.

·         It has the capability of movement to both directions.

·         It can be fixed by rotating the wheel behind Inserter, and it is easily released by loosening.

·         This provides an easy positioning as required.

·         After discectomy, the wheel is rotated clockwise while the TLIF cage is positioned upright and it’s placed into intervertebral area so on.

·         After that the wheel is loosened and the ProDolphin is released as at the required position.

·         All the procedure is performed by a single instrument.

CERVICAL DISC PROSTHESIS

One Piece Design

·         Completely made of titanium and PEEK.

·         PEEK material at the inner mechanism, provides a super-smooth surface for a perfect motion capability.

·         PEEK cover which is shaped as a tube, has been positioned around the inner mechanism in order to prevent the bone-fusion through the inside of disc prosthesis.

·         One-piece design.

·         Dark anodized and rough surface options are available

·         Physical capability of Flexion Extension - Lateral Bending – Rotation. Minimizing the scratching by the coating.

·         Special design for the most effective movement ability

·         Reliable construction for best-holding on endplates.

·         Reliable and stable connection with the instrument. Appropriate for Smith-Robinson approach.

·         Ti6Al4V (Grade 5) is used as raw materials for all PRODORTH disc prosthesis and these are all originated only from reliable partners in USA. PEEK material is supplied from EVONIK INDUSTRIES Germany. All certificates are available on request.

PRODORTH Cervical Disc Prosthesis is an implantation system used for eleminating the complaints of the patients which rise from the herniation at discs, traumas or any disorders on cervical spine.

PROCORAL V.2  is composed of 2 plates working separately and connected each other by a kind of a particular pin, besides a special designed PEEK system is used at the inner mechanism to obtain a more efficient movement capability.

Using ProCoral V.2  cervical disc prosthesis instead of traditional fusion cages minimize the Heterotopic Ossification, with its capability to make motions to various directions  and in result it has more similar specifications to an healthy disc.

ProCoral V.2 is designed as Metal - PEEK - Metal (M-P-M)  construction with various sizes and footprints. One piece design of it, provides an easier surgical tecnique as well as the great fixation with its inserter. Furthermore its wear resistance is pretty higher than competitors with its M-P-M design and for long-term, better results have been obtained on post-operative period. The Prodorth’s top-notch technology “PEEK tube” cover around the inner mechanism prevent the undesired bone fusion into the disc prosthesis.

CERVICAL ARTIFICIAL DISC – TOTAL DISC REPLACEMENT

·         Completely made of titanium and PEEK.

·         PEEK material at the inner mechanism, provides a super-smooth surface for a perfect motion capability.

·         PEEK cover which is shaped as a tube, has been positioned around the inner mechanism in order to prevent the bone-fusion through the inside of disc prosthesis.

·         One-piece design.

·         Dark anodized and rough surface options are available

·         Physical capability of Flexion Extension - Lateral Bending – Rotation. Minimizing the scratching by the coating.

·         Special design for the most effective movement ability

·         Reliable construction for best-holding on endplates.

·         Reliable and stable connection with the instrument. Appropriate for Smith-Robinson approach.

·         Ti6Al4V (Grade 5) is used as raw materials for all PRODORTH disc prosthesis and these are all originated only from reliable partners in USA. PEEK material is supplied from EVONIK INDUSTRIES Germany. All certificates are available on request.

CERVICAL PEEK CAGES​

PROYSTER®

Cervical Peek Cage provides a great fixation with its blade, which makes it a "Stand-Alone Interbody Cage" possible to be used without a plate.

One of the best advantage of Proyster® is offering a very simple application which is usally found pretty user-friendly by the surgeons.

Proyster® Peek Cage with mono / double blade options and regular cervical peek cages are available on request.

·         Toothed surface is designed to prevent migration.

·         Anatomical geometry.

·         X-Ray Markers provide an easy placement.

·         Made of PEEK material, originated  from EVONIK Industries Germany. Titanium alloy materials give opaque image under X-Ray, however PEEK materials is able to be seen transparently. This provides efficient following of the bone fusion through the implant at the intended periods.

·         Blades for a more reliable holding between the endplates.

·         Maximum Strong Construction / Fusion Space ratio.

·         Various sizes and footprints are available.

CERVICAL CAGES

·         Toothed surface is designed to prevent migration.

·         Anatomical geometry.

·         X-Ray Markers provide an easy placement.

·         Made of PEEK material, originated  from EVONIK Industries Germany. Titanium alloy materials give opaque image under X-Ray, however PEEK materials is able to be seen transparently. This provides efficient following of the bone fusion through the implant at the intended periods.

·         Blades for a more reliable holding between the endplates.

·         Maximum Strong Construction / Fusion Space ratio.

·         Various sizes and footprints are available.

Distributorship

One of the initial goals of PRODORTH is supplying highest quality  implants with the finest conditions to our customers. Therefore we pay a great attention to our products, a policy which stems from our belief that all people deserve to receive a topnotch health care.

Thus we always aim to provide an excellent service to our customers as we are keen to establish a long term relationship with them. PRODORTH services are available in various locations worldwide. Agents and distributors' information is kept confidential with us. For further information please don't hesitate to contact us.

Our customer service will be happy to answer all your queries.​

Distribution details;

* Distribution zone

* Discount rates

* Training with your staff and technical support

* Contents of our goods

* Distribution contract

Please contact us.

Source: spine company, spine device, pedicle screw

[turkiyeiskurumun]

Spinal Fixation Systems – Spine Implants – Spine Company

RD MEDICAL is dedicated to supply the best implants & instruments to the market and founded by mechanical and materials engineers who are experienced in designing and manufacturing fields, as well by the consultancy of clinical experts. Company serves as an OEM and takes part within biomedical industry with its innovative and high quality products. PRODORTH products are designed, manufactured and developed in our organization, the results of which are always appreciated by well-known surgeons.

PRODORTH began its journey with the principle of “Human First” and always proceed in this way.

Knowledge combined with technology and innovator approach

We respect the know-how and appreciate its value. Some of PRODORTH products are pending for patent.

We always see the great results of integrating advanced scientific methods to guarantee better health recovery experience.

About Us

Since the establishment of RD MEDICAL, communication and service quality have been significantly improved with distributors.

We always follow new approaches and develop advanced methods to accommodate our products with the top notch technologies of the field in order to guarantee the satisfaction and approval of surgeons. Therefore, research and development are major factors in our dynamic organization which requires our involvement in interdisciplinary studies. We also conducted meticulous researches to improve our products based on multiple experiences of attending surgical operations.

Our mission

Providing top notch detailed oriented products which contribute to the success of surgical operations and proved to be satisfactory to surgeons along with its effect on reducing the healing time of patients. We guarantee the continuity of the excellence of our products through working with a dynamic and experienced engineering team to satisfy the need of high-quality products and fast supply in the sector.

Our vision

We aim to provide our service to the worldwide medical sector and gain an international recognition of PRODORTH brand as one of the major surgical suppliers with the determination to enlarge our product line to accommodate the ever-rising need of the medical sector.

Quality Management

In our opinion, “A sustainable quality mentality” is the most critical fact for the permanency of a company. The main approach of RD MEDICAL is to maintain high quality products for the long run, an approach which aims at earning trust and building loyalty with our customers who we aim to serve for the long term.

All our manufacturing processes are followed up and managed in accordance with the medical device directive 93/42/EEC, ISO 13485:2016 and CE standards. At the same time, the transition to the 2017/745/EC Medical Device Regulation (MDR)  is in progress.

Instead of using these certificates just as keys for trade, we prefer managing our business according the requirements of these systems. ISO 13485:2016 Quality Management System is efficiently adapted on the organization of RD MEDICAL and provides a 100% traceability from initial to final product.

Our main task with respect to Quality Management  is ensuring a complete control in a reliable and continuous production quality with machining, polishing, washing, color anodizing and laser marking units within our organization.

​Biomechanical and biocompatibility tests were performed in accordance with ASTM and ISO standards which are required to launch our products to the market reliably in addition, all Prodorth products are firstly used by our surgeons and only launched to market after  the succesful clinical outcomes are obtained.

​​Any healthcare professional (e.g. surgeon using the products) who has a complaint or is dissatisfied with quality, identification, reliability, safety, efficacy and/or performance of Prodorth Systems, are responsible from informing either Prodorth or the distributor.

Simple Technigues, Sophisticated Solutions

We reflect the value of our brand to our products and we would like to see the doctors feel our effort of understanding and solving their problems.   High Quality and innovation are the first details you will notice about PRODORTH products.

R&D / Innovation

RD Medical has identified the problems during surgical operations and contacted surgeons on this issue. These feed-backs and internal discussions, analysis and wide researches provide new approaches which leads to new ideas.

Research and development, to guarantee the production of high quality products will be always the priority of RD Medical to which “R&D” initials were adopted.

There are patent pending products of PRODORTH such as “PLIF Cage with Screw”.

Product Specifications

Products & Raw materials​

Material selection is one of the most important point for implants.

Titanium Alloy (Ti6Al4V-Grade 5 / ISO 5832-3 / ASTM F136) and PEEK (Polyether-ether-kethon / ASTM F2026) are used as raw materials for all PRODORTH products and these are all originated from EU and USA. Both material are biocompatible and adequate for long term use

(C = Permanent (> 30 days)).​

PEEK material is a remarkable raw material with its unique properties;​

•Biocompatible

•It does not cause any lesional problems.

•Has elastical and hardness features near to bone tissue.•Titanium alloy materials give an opaque image under X-Ray, besides PEEK materials is able to be viewed transparently. This provides a more efficient follow-up for the bone fusion through the implant material at post-operative duration

SPINE DEVICES – SPINE IMPLANTS

POSTERIOR FIXATION SYSTEMS

Thoracolumbar Pedicle Screws

·         Prodorth Pedicle Screws have a unique design with V-Shaped highly sharp threads, as well as a polished surface which results in succesful clinical outcomes.

·         As it's proven so far, there is a direct relationship between the profile and the design of the pedicle screws with the pull-out strength, hence a strict quality control process is performed on the threads during the production.

·         Stronger connection with head part by milled surface feature.

·         More reliable tightening with the torx design of setscrew. Reverse angled setscrew thread design.

·         Easy initiative insertion.

·         Mono threaded and double threaded options are availabe on request. Double threaded Pedicle Screws have been designed for reducing the number of turns required for a complete implantation which reduce the operation time in result.

·         Titanium / Ti6Al4V (ASTM F 136) is used as raw materials for all PRODORTH pedicle screws and these are all originated only from reliable partners in USA.

Prodorth Posterior Fixation System is used for stabilizing the disorders in spine. The system is composed of  different type of pedicle screws, rods, connectors and some other supplementary elements.

This system is completely manufactured from Ti6Al4V (ISO 5832-3) material. (Except the PEEK rods which are made of PEEK material/ASTM F2026)

PRODORTH Posterior Fixation System has been used since 2013 in domestic market (Turkey), 2014 in EU countries, and Asia-Pacific region and since 2015 in South America and Middle-East. We continue our journey by expanding in new markets with an increasing satisfaction from the surgeons.​

Within recent years, the system has been developed and revised according to feed-backs from surgeons and customers, which led to establishing a reliable system that corresponds to the scientific requirements and the  finest technical details demanded by surgeons.

Mechanism of Action for Prodorth Posterior Fixation Implant System is implantation of the system into the vertebras and connection with rods and transverse connectors which generates an efficient  support to spine by a rigid construction in order to provide stabilization of spinal segments in skeletally mature patients as an adjunct to fusion in the treatment of the acute and chronic instabilities or deformities of the cervical, thoracic, lumbar, and sacral spine.

In other words, it provides stabilization to promote fusion following reduction of fracture/dislocation or trauma in the spinal junction and the spine.

INSTRUMENTS PROPERTIES​

·         Made of special stainless steel raw material with ultra high corrosion resistance and silicone appropriate for medical applications.

·         Besides the high corrosion resistance, they are also appropriate for all kind of sterilization types including steam sterilization at high temperatures. (Up to 137° degree)

·         Critical instruments such as screw drivers, nut drivers are offered double pieces in the container in case of any failure or falling on the floor. Hence the surgeon will be able to continue surgery without wasting time.

·         Special designed rod cutters provides less burrs and easier cutting are available on request.

·         Entire items of Prodorth Instrumentation are CE certified.

·         We offer a completely suitable instruments for degenerative, as well as deformity cases. It's possible to add or exclude the required instruments according to our customers' needs.

ROD & CONNECTORS

Linear & Multiaxial

PRODORTH Connectors have been designed to provide the most stable construction with different sizes.

We offer mainly two types of connectors as “Linear Connectors” and “Multiaxial Connectors” as well as various designs considering the needs of our clients.

PLIF PEEK CAGES

Regular PLIF - Expandable PLIF - PLIF with Screw

Standard and Expandable types  besides various sizes are available

·         Made of PEEK (ASTM F2026) which is a polymer based composite material and Ti6Al4V (ASTM F 136) materials.

·         Holding inferior and superior areas strongly with appropriate surface design.

·         X-Ray Markers for easy visualization during implantation.

·         Toothed surface design to prevent migration

·         Easy to implant with sharp ended design.​

·         Stopping system during expansion.

·         Sufficient space for fusion.

·         Anatomical geometry

PLIF PEEK CAGE with THREAD

·         PEEK material (ASTM F2026) and Titanium (ASTM F 136) is combined through the creation journey of ProMole. As it’s accepted by health authorities, PEEK does not cause any lesional problems in addition its elasticity and hardness features are quite near to bone tissue.

·         Since ProMole has the titanium threads on the tip and the marker pins behind, surgeon can follow ProMole during surgery very efficiently.

·         ProMole can be connected  with its instruments very easily .

·         Once the internal appratus of its inserter placed through the inserter, it can rotate the thread at the front.

·         When the thread is rotated clockwise, ProMole will be pulling itself into the intervertebral area. Likewise it is able to be unscrewed by rotating the thread anticlockwise. These specifications of it provides a more reliable and easy implantation considering the traditional PLIF procedure

·         PROMOLE® Cages provides a gradually placement.

·         Toothed surface feature for best-holding the inferior and superior areas.

·         PEEK material  is originated  from EVONIK Industries Germany.

·         X-ray marker pins for the visibility.

·         Various sizes are available on request.

TLIF PEEK CAGE

Rotatable Design

Prodorth TLIF Cage is intended for single use only and restore the degenerative disc pathologies.

Prodorth TLIF Cage  is made of PEEK (ASTM F2026) which is a polymer based composite material and Ti6Al4V (ASTM F 136) material.

·         PRODORTH Tlif Cages ® provides an uninterrupted guidance during operation.

·         Circular toothed surface feature for a better holding on the inferior and superior areas.

·         It has the capability of movement to both directions.

·         It can be fixed by rotating the wheel behind Inserter, and it is easily released by loosening.

·         This provides an easy positioning as required.

·         After discectomy, the wheel is rotated clockwise while the TLIF cage is positioned upright and it’s placed into intervertebral area so on.

·         After that the wheel is loosened and the ProDolphin is released as at the required position.

·         All the procedure is performed by a single instrument.

CERVICAL DISC PROSTHESIS

One Piece Design

·         Completely made of titanium and PEEK.

·         PEEK material at the inner mechanism, provides a super-smooth surface for a perfect motion capability.

·         PEEK cover which is shaped as a tube, has been positioned around the inner mechanism in order to prevent the bone-fusion through the inside of disc prosthesis.

·         One-piece design.

·         Dark anodized and rough surface options are available

·         Physical capability of Flexion Extension - Lateral Bending – Rotation. Minimizing the scratching by the coating.

·         Special design for the most effective movement ability

·         Reliable construction for best-holding on endplates.

·         Reliable and stable connection with the instrument. Appropriate for Smith-Robinson approach.

·         Ti6Al4V (Grade 5) is used as raw materials for all PRODORTH disc prosthesis and these are all originated only from reliable partners in USA. PEEK material is supplied from EVONIK INDUSTRIES Germany. All certificates are available on request.

PRODORTH Cervical Disc Prosthesis is an implantation system used for eleminating the complaints of the patients which rise from the herniation at discs, traumas or any disorders on cervical spine.

PROCORAL V.2  is composed of 2 plates working separately and connected each other by a kind of a particular pin, besides a special designed PEEK system is used at the inner mechanism to obtain a more efficient movement capability.

Using ProCoral V.2  cervical disc prosthesis instead of traditional fusion cages minimize the Heterotopic Ossification, with its capability to make motions to various directions  and in result it has more similar specifications to an healthy disc.

ProCoral V.2 is designed as Metal - PEEK - Metal (M-P-M)  construction with various sizes and footprints. One piece design of it, provides an easier surgical tecnique as well as the great fixation with its inserter. Furthermore its wear resistance is pretty higher than competitors with its M-P-M design and for long-term, better results have been obtained on post-operative period. The Prodorth’s top-notch technology “PEEK tube” cover around the inner mechanism prevent the undesired bone fusion into the disc prosthesis.

CERVICAL ARTIFICIAL DISC – TOTAL DISC REPLACEMENT

·         Completely made of titanium and PEEK.

·         PEEK material at the inner mechanism, provides a super-smooth surface for a perfect motion capability.

·         PEEK cover which is shaped as a tube, has been positioned around the inner mechanism in order to prevent the bone-fusion through the inside of disc prosthesis.

·         One-piece design.

·         Dark anodized and rough surface options are available

·         Physical capability of Flexion Extension - Lateral Bending – Rotation. Minimizing the scratching by the coating.

·         Special design for the most effective movement ability

·         Reliable construction for best-holding on endplates.

·         Reliable and stable connection with the instrument. Appropriate for Smith-Robinson approach.

·         Ti6Al4V (Grade 5) is used as raw materials for all PRODORTH disc prosthesis and these are all originated only from reliable partners in USA. PEEK material is supplied from EVONIK INDUSTRIES Germany. All certificates are available on request.

CERVICAL PEEK CAGES​

PROYSTER®

Cervical Peek Cage provides a great fixation with its blade, which makes it a "Stand-Alone Interbody Cage" possible to be used without a plate.

One of the best advantage of Proyster® is offering a very simple application which is usally found pretty user-friendly by the surgeons.

Proyster® Peek Cage with mono / double blade options and regular cervical peek cages are available on request.

·         Toothed surface is designed to prevent migration.

·         Anatomical geometry.

·         X-Ray Markers provide an easy placement.

·         Made of PEEK material, originated  from EVONIK Industries Germany. Titanium alloy materials give opaque image under X-Ray, however PEEK materials is able to be seen transparently. This provides efficient following of the bone fusion through the implant at the intended periods.

·         Blades for a more reliable holding between the endplates.

·         Maximum Strong Construction / Fusion Space ratio.

·         Various sizes and footprints are available.

CERVICAL CAGES

·         Toothed surface is designed to prevent migration.

·         Anatomical geometry.

·         X-Ray Markers provide an easy placement.

·         Made of PEEK material, originated  from EVONIK Industries Germany. Titanium alloy materials give opaque image under X-Ray, however PEEK materials is able to be seen transparently. This provides efficient following of the bone fusion through the implant at the intended periods.

·         Blades for a more reliable holding between the endplates.

·         Maximum Strong Construction / Fusion Space ratio.

·         Various sizes and footprints are available.

Distributorship

One of the initial goals of PRODORTH is supplying highest quality  implants with the finest conditions to our customers. Therefore we pay a great attention to our products, a policy which stems from our belief that all people deserve to receive a topnotch health care.

Thus we always aim to provide an excellent service to our customers as we are keen to establish a long term relationship with them. PRODORTH services are available in various locations worldwide. Agents and distributors' information is kept confidential with us. For further information please don't hesitate to contact us.

Our customer service will be happy to answer all your queries.​

Distribution details;

* Distribution zone

* Discount rates

* Training with your staff and technical support

* Contents of our goods

* Distribution contract

Please contact us.

Source: spine company, spine device, pedicle screw

[trafikisaretlerin]

Spinal Fixation Systems – Spine Implants – Spine Company

RD MEDICAL is dedicated to supply the best implants & instruments to the market and founded by mechanical and materials engineers who are experienced in designing and manufacturing fields, as well by the consultancy of clinical experts. Company serves as an OEM and takes part within biomedical industry with its innovative and high quality products. PRODORTH products are designed, manufactured and developed in our organization, the results of which are always appreciated by well-known surgeons.

PRODORTH began its journey with the principle of “Human First” and always proceed in this way.

Knowledge combined with technology and innovator approach

We respect the know-how and appreciate its value. Some of PRODORTH products are pending for patent.

We always see the great results of integrating advanced scientific methods to guarantee better health recovery experience.

About Us

Since the establishment of RD MEDICAL, communication and service quality have been significantly improved with distributors.

We always follow new approaches and develop advanced methods to accommodate our products with the top notch technologies of the field in order to guarantee the satisfaction and approval of surgeons. Therefore, research and development are major factors in our dynamic organization which requires our involvement in interdisciplinary studies. We also conducted meticulous researches to improve our products based on multiple experiences of attending surgical operations.

Our mission

Providing top notch detailed oriented products which contribute to the success of surgical operations and proved to be satisfactory to surgeons along with its effect on reducing the healing time of patients. We guarantee the continuity of the excellence of our products through working with a dynamic and experienced engineering team to satisfy the need of high-quality products and fast supply in the sector.

Our vision

We aim to provide our service to the worldwide medical sector and gain an international recognition of PRODORTH brand as one of the major surgical suppliers with the determination to enlarge our product line to accommodate the ever-rising need of the medical sector.

Quality Management

In our opinion, “A sustainable quality mentality” is the most critical fact for the permanency of a company. The main approach of RD MEDICAL is to maintain high quality products for the long run, an approach which aims at earning trust and building loyalty with our customers who we aim to serve for the long term.

All our manufacturing processes are followed up and managed in accordance with the medical device directive 93/42/EEC, ISO 13485:2016 and CE standards. At the same time, the transition to the 2017/745/EC Medical Device Regulation (MDR)  is in progress.

Instead of using these certificates just as keys for trade, we prefer managing our business according the requirements of these systems. ISO 13485:2016 Quality Management System is efficiently adapted on the organization of RD MEDICAL and provides a 100% traceability from initial to final product.

Our main task with respect to Quality Management  is ensuring a complete control in a reliable and continuous production quality with machining, polishing, washing, color anodizing and laser marking units within our organization.

​Biomechanical and biocompatibility tests were performed in accordance with ASTM and ISO standards which are required to launch our products to the market reliably in addition, all Prodorth products are firstly used by our surgeons and only launched to market after  the succesful clinical outcomes are obtained.

​​Any healthcare professional (e.g. surgeon using the products) who has a complaint or is dissatisfied with quality, identification, reliability, safety, efficacy and/or performance of Prodorth Systems, are responsible from informing either Prodorth or the distributor.

Simple Technigues, Sophisticated Solutions

We reflect the value of our brand to our products and we would like to see the doctors feel our effort of understanding and solving their problems.   High Quality and innovation are the first details you will notice about PRODORTH products.

R&D / Innovation

RD Medical has identified the problems during surgical operations and contacted surgeons on this issue. These feed-backs and internal discussions, analysis and wide researches provide new approaches which leads to new ideas.

Research and development, to guarantee the production of high quality products will be always the priority of RD Medical to which “R&D” initials were adopted.

There are patent pending products of PRODORTH such as “PLIF Cage with Screw”.

Product Specifications

Products & Raw materials​

Material selection is one of the most important point for implants.

Titanium Alloy (Ti6Al4V-Grade 5 / ISO 5832-3 / ASTM F136) and PEEK (Polyether-ether-kethon / ASTM F2026) are used as raw materials for all PRODORTH products and these are all originated from EU and USA. Both material are biocompatible and adequate for long term use

(C = Permanent (> 30 days)).​

PEEK material is a remarkable raw material with its unique properties;​

•Biocompatible

•It does not cause any lesional problems.

•Has elastical and hardness features near to bone tissue.•Titanium alloy materials give an opaque image under X-Ray, besides PEEK materials is able to be viewed transparently. This provides a more efficient follow-up for the bone fusion through the implant material at post-operative duration

SPINE DEVICES – SPINE IMPLANTS

POSTERIOR FIXATION SYSTEMS

Thoracolumbar Pedicle Screws

·         Prodorth Pedicle Screws have a unique design with V-Shaped highly sharp threads, as well as a polished surface which results in succesful clinical outcomes.

·         As it's proven so far, there is a direct relationship between the profile and the design of the pedicle screws with the pull-out strength, hence a strict quality control process is performed on the threads during the production.

·         Stronger connection with head part by milled surface feature.

·         More reliable tightening with the torx design of setscrew. Reverse angled setscrew thread design.

·         Easy initiative insertion.

·         Mono threaded and double threaded options are availabe on request. Double threaded Pedicle Screws have been designed for reducing the number of turns required for a complete implantation which reduce the operation time in result.

·         Titanium / Ti6Al4V (ASTM F 136) is used as raw materials for all PRODORTH pedicle screws and these are all originated only from reliable partners in USA.

Prodorth Posterior Fixation System is used for stabilizing the disorders in spine. The system is composed of  different type of pedicle screws, rods, connectors and some other supplementary elements.

This system is completely manufactured from Ti6Al4V (ISO 5832-3) material. (Except the PEEK rods which are made of PEEK material/ASTM F2026)

PRODORTH Posterior Fixation System has been used since 2013 in domestic market (Turkey), 2014 in EU countries, and Asia-Pacific region and since 2015 in South America and Middle-East. We continue our journey by expanding in new markets with an increasing satisfaction from the surgeons.​

Within recent years, the system has been developed and revised according to feed-backs from surgeons and customers, which led to establishing a reliable system that corresponds to the scientific requirements and the  finest technical details demanded by surgeons.

Mechanism of Action for Prodorth Posterior Fixation Implant System is implantation of the system into the vertebras and connection with rods and transverse connectors which generates an efficient  support to spine by a rigid construction in order to provide stabilization of spinal segments in skeletally mature patients as an adjunct to fusion in the treatment of the acute and chronic instabilities or deformities of the cervical, thoracic, lumbar, and sacral spine.

In other words, it provides stabilization to promote fusion following reduction of fracture/dislocation or trauma in the spinal junction and the spine.

INSTRUMENTS PROPERTIES​

·         Made of special stainless steel raw material with ultra high corrosion resistance and silicone appropriate for medical applications.

·         Besides the high corrosion resistance, they are also appropriate for all kind of sterilization types including steam sterilization at high temperatures. (Up to 137° degree)

·         Critical instruments such as screw drivers, nut drivers are offered double pieces in the container in case of any failure or falling on the floor. Hence the surgeon will be able to continue surgery without wasting time.

·         Special designed rod cutters provides less burrs and easier cutting are available on request.

·         Entire items of Prodorth Instrumentation are CE certified.

·         We offer a completely suitable instruments for degenerative, as well as deformity cases. It's possible to add or exclude the required instruments according to our customers' needs.

ROD & CONNECTORS

Linear & Multiaxial

PRODORTH Connectors have been designed to provide the most stable construction with different sizes.

We offer mainly two types of connectors as “Linear Connectors” and “Multiaxial Connectors” as well as various designs considering the needs of our clients.

PLIF PEEK CAGES

Regular PLIF - Expandable PLIF - PLIF with Screw

Standard and Expandable types  besides various sizes are available

·         Made of PEEK (ASTM F2026) which is a polymer based composite material and Ti6Al4V (ASTM F 136) materials.

·         Holding inferior and superior areas strongly with appropriate surface design.

·         X-Ray Markers for easy visualization during implantation.

·         Toothed surface design to prevent migration

·         Easy to implant with sharp ended design.​

·         Stopping system during expansion.

·         Sufficient space for fusion.

·         Anatomical geometry

PLIF PEEK CAGE with THREAD

·         PEEK material (ASTM F2026) and Titanium (ASTM F 136) is combined through the creation journey of ProMole. As it’s accepted by health authorities, PEEK does not cause any lesional problems in addition its elasticity and hardness features are quite near to bone tissue.

·         Since ProMole has the titanium threads on the tip and the marker pins behind, surgeon can follow ProMole during surgery very efficiently.

·         ProMole can be connected  with its instruments very easily .

·         Once the internal appratus of its inserter placed through the inserter, it can rotate the thread at the front.

·         When the thread is rotated clockwise, ProMole will be pulling itself into the intervertebral area. Likewise it is able to be unscrewed by rotating the thread anticlockwise. These specifications of it provides a more reliable and easy implantation considering the traditional PLIF procedure

·         PROMOLE® Cages provides a gradually placement.

·         Toothed surface feature for best-holding the inferior and superior areas.

·         PEEK material  is originated  from EVONIK Industries Germany.

·         X-ray marker pins for the visibility.

·         Various sizes are available on request.

TLIF PEEK CAGE

Rotatable Design

Prodorth TLIF Cage is intended for single use only and restore the degenerative disc pathologies.

Prodorth TLIF Cage  is made of PEEK (ASTM F2026) which is a polymer based composite material and Ti6Al4V (ASTM F 136) material.

·         PRODORTH Tlif Cages ® provides an uninterrupted guidance during operation.

·         Circular toothed surface feature for a better holding on the inferior and superior areas.

·         It has the capability of movement to both directions.

·         It can be fixed by rotating the wheel behind Inserter, and it is easily released by loosening.

·         This provides an easy positioning as required.

·         After discectomy, the wheel is rotated clockwise while the TLIF cage is positioned upright and it’s placed into intervertebral area so on.

·         After that the wheel is loosened and the ProDolphin is released as at the required position.

·         All the procedure is performed by a single instrument.

CERVICAL DISC PROSTHESIS

One Piece Design

·         Completely made of titanium and PEEK.

·         PEEK material at the inner mechanism, provides a super-smooth surface for a perfect motion capability.

·         PEEK cover which is shaped as a tube, has been positioned around the inner mechanism in order to prevent the bone-fusion through the inside of disc prosthesis.

·         One-piece design.

·         Dark anodized and rough surface options are available

·         Physical capability of Flexion Extension - Lateral Bending – Rotation. Minimizing the scratching by the coating.

·         Special design for the most effective movement ability

·         Reliable construction for best-holding on endplates.

·         Reliable and stable connection with the instrument. Appropriate for Smith-Robinson approach.

·         Ti6Al4V (Grade 5) is used as raw materials for all PRODORTH disc prosthesis and these are all originated only from reliable partners in USA. PEEK material is supplied from EVONIK INDUSTRIES Germany. All certificates are available on request.

PRODORTH Cervical Disc Prosthesis is an implantation system used for eleminating the complaints of the patients which rise from the herniation at discs, traumas or any disorders on cervical spine.

PROCORAL V.2  is composed of 2 plates working separately and connected each other by a kind of a particular pin, besides a special designed PEEK system is used at the inner mechanism to obtain a more efficient movement capability.

Using ProCoral V.2  cervical disc prosthesis instead of traditional fusion cages minimize the Heterotopic Ossification, with its capability to make motions to various directions  and in result it has more similar specifications to an healthy disc.

ProCoral V.2 is designed as Metal - PEEK - Metal (M-P-M)  construction with various sizes and footprints. One piece design of it, provides an easier surgical tecnique as well as the great fixation with its inserter. Furthermore its wear resistance is pretty higher than competitors with its M-P-M design and for long-term, better results have been obtained on post-operative period. The Prodorth’s top-notch technology “PEEK tube” cover around the inner mechanism prevent the undesired bone fusion into the disc prosthesis.

CERVICAL ARTIFICIAL DISC – TOTAL DISC REPLACEMENT

·         Completely made of titanium and PEEK.

·         PEEK material at the inner mechanism, provides a super-smooth surface for a perfect motion capability.

·         PEEK cover which is shaped as a tube, has been positioned around the inner mechanism in order to prevent the bone-fusion through the inside of disc prosthesis.

·         One-piece design.

·         Dark anodized and rough surface options are available

·         Physical capability of Flexion Extension - Lateral Bending – Rotation. Minimizing the scratching by the coating.

·         Special design for the most effective movement ability

·         Reliable construction for best-holding on endplates.

·         Reliable and stable connection with the instrument. Appropriate for Smith-Robinson approach.

·         Ti6Al4V (Grade 5) is used as raw materials for all PRODORTH disc prosthesis and these are all originated only from reliable partners in USA. PEEK material is supplied from EVONIK INDUSTRIES Germany. All certificates are available on request.

CERVICAL PEEK CAGES​

PROYSTER®

Cervical Peek Cage provides a great fixation with its blade, which makes it a "Stand-Alone Interbody Cage" possible to be used without a plate.

One of the best advantage of Proyster® is offering a very simple application which is usally found pretty user-friendly by the surgeons.

Proyster® Peek Cage with mono / double blade options and regular cervical peek cages are available on request.

·         Toothed surface is designed to prevent migration.

·         Anatomical geometry.

·         X-Ray Markers provide an easy placement.

·         Made of PEEK material, originated  from EVONIK Industries Germany. Titanium alloy materials give opaque image under X-Ray, however PEEK materials is able to be seen transparently. This provides efficient following of the bone fusion through the implant at the intended periods.

·         Blades for a more reliable holding between the endplates.

·         Maximum Strong Construction / Fusion Space ratio.

·         Various sizes and footprints are available.

CERVICAL CAGES

·         Toothed surface is designed to prevent migration.

·         Anatomical geometry.

·         X-Ray Markers provide an easy placement.

·         Made of PEEK material, originated  from EVONIK Industries Germany. Titanium alloy materials give opaque image under X-Ray, however PEEK materials is able to be seen transparently. This provides efficient following of the bone fusion through the implant at the intended periods.

·         Blades for a more reliable holding between the endplates.

·         Maximum Strong Construction / Fusion Space ratio.

·         Various sizes and footprints are available.

Distributorship

One of the initial goals of PRODORTH is supplying highest quality  implants with the finest conditions to our customers. Therefore we pay a great attention to our products, a policy which stems from our belief that all people deserve to receive a topnotch health care.

Thus we always aim to provide an excellent service to our customers as we are keen to establish a long term relationship with them. PRODORTH services are available in various locations worldwide. Agents and distributors' information is kept confidential with us. For further information please don't hesitate to contact us.

Our customer service will be happy to answer all your queries.​

Distribution details;

* Distribution zone

* Discount rates

* Training with your staff and technical support

* Contents of our goods

* Distribution contract

Please contact us.

Source: spine company, spine device, pedicle screw

[tekirdagdugunsalonlari]

Spinal Fixation Systems – Spine Implants – Spine Company

RD MEDICAL is dedicated to supply the best implants & instruments to the market and founded by mechanical and materials engineers who are experienced in designing and manufacturing fields, as well by the consultancy of clinical experts. Company serves as an OEM and takes part within biomedical industry with its innovative and high quality products. PRODORTH products are designed, manufactured and developed in our organization, the results of which are always appreciated by well-known surgeons.

PRODORTH began its journey with the principle of “Human First” and always proceed in this way.

Knowledge combined with technology and innovator approach

We respect the know-how and appreciate its value. Some of PRODORTH products are pending for patent.

We always see the great results of integrating advanced scientific methods to guarantee better health recovery experience.

About Us

Since the establishment of RD MEDICAL, communication and service quality have been significantly improved with distributors.

We always follow new approaches and develop advanced methods to accommodate our products with the top notch technologies of the field in order to guarantee the satisfaction and approval of surgeons. Therefore, research and development are major factors in our dynamic organization which requires our involvement in interdisciplinary studies. We also conducted meticulous researches to improve our products based on multiple experiences of attending surgical operations.

Our mission

Providing top notch detailed oriented products which contribute to the success of surgical operations and proved to be satisfactory to surgeons along with its effect on reducing the healing time of patients. We guarantee the continuity of the excellence of our products through working with a dynamic and experienced engineering team to satisfy the need of high-quality products and fast supply in the sector.

Our vision

We aim to provide our service to the worldwide medical sector and gain an international recognition of PRODORTH brand as one of the major surgical suppliers with the determination to enlarge our product line to accommodate the ever-rising need of the medical sector.

Quality Management

In our opinion, “A sustainable quality mentality” is the most critical fact for the permanency of a company. The main approach of RD MEDICAL is to maintain high quality products for the long run, an approach which aims at earning trust and building loyalty with our customers who we aim to serve for the long term.

All our manufacturing processes are followed up and managed in accordance with the medical device directive 93/42/EEC, ISO 13485:2016 and CE standards. At the same time, the transition to the 2017/745/EC Medical Device Regulation (MDR)  is in progress.

Instead of using these certificates just as keys for trade, we prefer managing our business according the requirements of these systems. ISO 13485:2016 Quality Management System is efficiently adapted on the organization of RD MEDICAL and provides a 100% traceability from initial to final product.

Our main task with respect to Quality Management  is ensuring a complete control in a reliable and continuous production quality with machining, polishing, washing, color anodizing and laser marking units within our organization.

​Biomechanical and biocompatibility tests were performed in accordance with ASTM and ISO standards which are required to launch our products to the market reliably in addition, all Prodorth products are firstly used by our surgeons and only launched to market after  the succesful clinical outcomes are obtained.

​​Any healthcare professional (e.g. surgeon using the products) who has a complaint or is dissatisfied with quality, identification, reliability, safety, efficacy and/or performance of Prodorth Systems, are responsible from informing either Prodorth or the distributor.

Simple Technigues, Sophisticated Solutions

We reflect the value of our brand to our products and we would like to see the doctors feel our effort of understanding and solving their problems.   High Quality and innovation are the first details you will notice about PRODORTH products.

R&D / Innovation

RD Medical has identified the problems during surgical operations and contacted surgeons on this issue. These feed-backs and internal discussions, analysis and wide researches provide new approaches which leads to new ideas.

Research and development, to guarantee the production of high quality products will be always the priority of RD Medical to which “R&D” initials were adopted.

There are patent pending products of PRODORTH such as “PLIF Cage with Screw”.

Product Specifications

Products & Raw materials​

Material selection is one of the most important point for implants.

Titanium Alloy (Ti6Al4V-Grade 5 / ISO 5832-3 / ASTM F136) and PEEK (Polyether-ether-kethon / ASTM F2026) are used as raw materials for all PRODORTH products and these are all originated from EU and USA. Both material are biocompatible and adequate for long term use

(C = Permanent (> 30 days)).​

PEEK material is a remarkable raw material with its unique properties;​

•Biocompatible

•It does not cause any lesional problems.

•Has elastical and hardness features near to bone tissue.•Titanium alloy materials give an opaque image under X-Ray, besides PEEK materials is able to be viewed transparently. This provides a more efficient follow-up for the bone fusion through the implant material at post-operative duration

SPINE DEVICES – SPINE IMPLANTS

POSTERIOR FIXATION SYSTEMS

Thoracolumbar Pedicle Screws

·         Prodorth Pedicle Screws have a unique design with V-Shaped highly sharp threads, as well as a polished surface which results in succesful clinical outcomes.

·         As it's proven so far, there is a direct relationship between the profile and the design of the pedicle screws with the pull-out strength, hence a strict quality control process is performed on the threads during the production.

·         Stronger connection with head part by milled surface feature.

·         More reliable tightening with the torx design of setscrew. Reverse angled setscrew thread design.

·         Easy initiative insertion.

·         Mono threaded and double threaded options are availabe on request. Double threaded Pedicle Screws have been designed for reducing the number of turns required for a complete implantation which reduce the operation time in result.

·         Titanium / Ti6Al4V (ASTM F 136) is used as raw materials for all PRODORTH pedicle screws and these are all originated only from reliable partners in USA.

Prodorth Posterior Fixation System is used for stabilizing the disorders in spine. The system is composed of  different type of pedicle screws, rods, connectors and some other supplementary elements.

This system is completely manufactured from Ti6Al4V (ISO 5832-3) material. (Except the PEEK rods which are made of PEEK material/ASTM F2026)

PRODORTH Posterior Fixation System has been used since 2013 in domestic market (Turkey), 2014 in EU countries, and Asia-Pacific region and since 2015 in South America and Middle-East. We continue our journey by expanding in new markets with an increasing satisfaction from the surgeons.​

Within recent years, the system has been developed and revised according to feed-backs from surgeons and customers, which led to establishing a reliable system that corresponds to the scientific requirements and the  finest technical details demanded by surgeons.

Mechanism of Action for Prodorth Posterior Fixation Implant System is implantation of the system into the vertebras and connection with rods and transverse connectors which generates an efficient  support to spine by a rigid construction in order to provide stabilization of spinal segments in skeletally mature patients as an adjunct to fusion in the treatment of the acute and chronic instabilities or deformities of the cervical, thoracic, lumbar, and sacral spine.

In other words, it provides stabilization to promote fusion following reduction of fracture/dislocation or trauma in the spinal junction and the spine.

INSTRUMENTS PROPERTIES​

·         Made of special stainless steel raw material with ultra high corrosion resistance and silicone appropriate for medical applications.

·         Besides the high corrosion resistance, they are also appropriate for all kind of sterilization types including steam sterilization at high temperatures. (Up to 137° degree)

·         Critical instruments such as screw drivers, nut drivers are offered double pieces in the container in case of any failure or falling on the floor. Hence the surgeon will be able to continue surgery without wasting time.

·         Special designed rod cutters provides less burrs and easier cutting are available on request.

·         Entire items of Prodorth Instrumentation are CE certified.

·         We offer a completely suitable instruments for degenerative, as well as deformity cases. It's possible to add or exclude the required instruments according to our customers' needs.

ROD & CONNECTORS

Linear & Multiaxial

PRODORTH Connectors have been designed to provide the most stable construction with different sizes.

We offer mainly two types of connectors as “Linear Connectors” and “Multiaxial Connectors” as well as various designs considering the needs of our clients.

PLIF PEEK CAGES

Regular PLIF - Expandable PLIF - PLIF with Screw

Standard and Expandable types  besides various sizes are available

·         Made of PEEK (ASTM F2026) which is a polymer based composite material and Ti6Al4V (ASTM F 136) materials.

·         Holding inferior and superior areas strongly with appropriate surface design.

·         X-Ray Markers for easy visualization during implantation.

·         Toothed surface design to prevent migration

·         Easy to implant with sharp ended design.​

·         Stopping system during expansion.

·         Sufficient space for fusion.

·         Anatomical geometry

PLIF PEEK CAGE with THREAD

·         PEEK material (ASTM F2026) and Titanium (ASTM F 136) is combined through the creation journey of ProMole. As it’s accepted by health authorities, PEEK does not cause any lesional problems in addition its elasticity and hardness features are quite near to bone tissue.

·         Since ProMole has the titanium threads on the tip and the marker pins behind, surgeon can follow ProMole during surgery very efficiently.

·         ProMole can be connected  with its instruments very easily .

·         Once the internal appratus of its inserter placed through the inserter, it can rotate the thread at the front.

·         When the thread is rotated clockwise, ProMole will be pulling itself into the intervertebral area. Likewise it is able to be unscrewed by rotating the thread anticlockwise. These specifications of it provides a more reliable and easy implantation considering the traditional PLIF procedure

·         PROMOLE® Cages provides a gradually placement.

·         Toothed surface feature for best-holding the inferior and superior areas.

·         PEEK material  is originated  from EVONIK Industries Germany.

·         X-ray marker pins for the visibility.

·         Various sizes are available on request.

TLIF PEEK CAGE

Rotatable Design

Prodorth TLIF Cage is intended for single use only and restore the degenerative disc pathologies.

Prodorth TLIF Cage  is made of PEEK (ASTM F2026) which is a polymer based composite material and Ti6Al4V (ASTM F 136) material.

·         PRODORTH Tlif Cages ® provides an uninterrupted guidance during operation.

·         Circular toothed surface feature for a better holding on the inferior and superior areas.

·         It has the capability of movement to both directions.

·         It can be fixed by rotating the wheel behind Inserter, and it is easily released by loosening.

·         This provides an easy positioning as required.

·         After discectomy, the wheel is rotated clockwise while the TLIF cage is positioned upright and it’s placed into intervertebral area so on.

·         After that the wheel is loosened and the ProDolphin is released as at the required position.

·         All the procedure is performed by a single instrument.

CERVICAL DISC PROSTHESIS

One Piece Design

·         Completely made of titanium and PEEK.

·         PEEK material at the inner mechanism, provides a super-smooth surface for a perfect motion capability.

·         PEEK cover which is shaped as a tube, has been positioned around the inner mechanism in order to prevent the bone-fusion through the inside of disc prosthesis.

·         One-piece design.

·         Dark anodized and rough surface options are available

·         Physical capability of Flexion Extension - Lateral Bending – Rotation. Minimizing the scratching by the coating.

·         Special design for the most effective movement ability

·         Reliable construction for best-holding on endplates.

·         Reliable and stable connection with the instrument. Appropriate for Smith-Robinson approach.

·         Ti6Al4V (Grade 5) is used as raw materials for all PRODORTH disc prosthesis and these are all originated only from reliable partners in USA. PEEK material is supplied from EVONIK INDUSTRIES Germany. All certificates are available on request.

PRODORTH Cervical Disc Prosthesis is an implantation system used for eleminating the complaints of the patients which rise from the herniation at discs, traumas or any disorders on cervical spine.

PROCORAL V.2  is composed of 2 plates working separately and connected each other by a kind of a particular pin, besides a special designed PEEK system is used at the inner mechanism to obtain a more efficient movement capability.

Using ProCoral V.2  cervical disc prosthesis instead of traditional fusion cages minimize the Heterotopic Ossification, with its capability to make motions to various directions  and in result it has more similar specifications to an healthy disc.

ProCoral V.2 is designed as Metal - PEEK - Metal (M-P-M)  construction with various sizes and footprints. One piece design of it, provides an easier surgical tecnique as well as the great fixation with its inserter. Furthermore its wear resistance is pretty higher than competitors with its M-P-M design and for long-term, better results have been obtained on post-operative period. The Prodorth’s top-notch technology “PEEK tube” cover around the inner mechanism prevent the undesired bone fusion into the disc prosthesis.

CERVICAL ARTIFICIAL DISC – TOTAL DISC REPLACEMENT

·         Completely made of titanium and PEEK.

·         PEEK material at the inner mechanism, provides a super-smooth surface for a perfect motion capability.

·         PEEK cover which is shaped as a tube, has been positioned around the inner mechanism in order to prevent the bone-fusion through the inside of disc prosthesis.

·         One-piece design.

·         Dark anodized and rough surface options are available

·         Physical capability of Flexion Extension - Lateral Bending – Rotation. Minimizing the scratching by the coating.

·         Special design for the most effective movement ability

·         Reliable construction for best-holding on endplates.

·         Reliable and stable connection with the instrument. Appropriate for Smith-Robinson approach.

·         Ti6Al4V (Grade 5) is used as raw materials for all PRODORTH disc prosthesis and these are all originated only from reliable partners in USA. PEEK material is supplied from EVONIK INDUSTRIES Germany. All certificates are available on request.

CERVICAL PEEK CAGES​

PROYSTER®

Cervical Peek Cage provides a great fixation with its blade, which makes it a "Stand-Alone Interbody Cage" possible to be used without a plate.

One of the best advantage of Proyster® is offering a very simple application which is usally found pretty user-friendly by the surgeons.

Proyster® Peek Cage with mono / double blade options and regular cervical peek cages are available on request.

·         Toothed surface is designed to prevent migration.

·         Anatomical geometry.

·         X-Ray Markers provide an easy placement.

·         Made of PEEK material, originated  from EVONIK Industries Germany. Titanium alloy materials give opaque image under X-Ray, however PEEK materials is able to be seen transparently. This provides efficient following of the bone fusion through the implant at the intended periods.

·         Blades for a more reliable holding between the endplates.

·         Maximum Strong Construction / Fusion Space ratio.

·         Various sizes and footprints are available.

CERVICAL CAGES

·         Toothed surface is designed to prevent migration.

·         Anatomical geometry.

·         X-Ray Markers provide an easy placement.

·         Made of PEEK material, originated  from EVONIK Industries Germany. Titanium alloy materials give opaque image under X-Ray, however PEEK materials is able to be seen transparently. This provides efficient following of the bone fusion through the implant at the intended periods.

·         Blades for a more reliable holding between the endplates.

·         Maximum Strong Construction / Fusion Space ratio.

·         Various sizes and footprints are available.

Distributorship

One of the initial goals of PRODORTH is supplying highest quality  implants with the finest conditions to our customers. Therefore we pay a great attention to our products, a policy which stems from our belief that all people deserve to receive a topnotch health care.

Thus we always aim to provide an excellent service to our customers as we are keen to establish a long term relationship with them. PRODORTH services are available in various locations worldwide. Agents and distributors' information is kept confidential with us. For further information please don't hesitate to contact us.

Our customer service will be happy to answer all your queries.​

Distribution details;

* Distribution zone

* Discount rates

* Training with your staff and technical support

* Contents of our goods

* Distribution contract

Please contact us.

Source: spine company, spine device, pedicle screw

[tanitimajansim]

Spinal Fixation Systems – Spine Implants – Spine Company

RD MEDICAL is dedicated to supply the best implants & instruments to the market and founded by mechanical and materials engineers who are experienced in designing and manufacturing fields, as well by the consultancy of clinical experts. Company serves as an OEM and takes part within biomedical industry with its innovative and high quality products. PRODORTH products are designed, manufactured and developed in our organization, the results of which are always appreciated by well-known surgeons.

PRODORTH began its journey with the principle of “Human First” and always proceed in this way.

Knowledge combined with technology and innovator approach

We respect the know-how and appreciate its value. Some of PRODORTH products are pending for patent.

We always see the great results of integrating advanced scientific methods to guarantee better health recovery experience.

About Us

Since the establishment of RD MEDICAL, communication and service quality have been significantly improved with distributors.

We always follow new approaches and develop advanced methods to accommodate our products with the top notch technologies of the field in order to guarantee the satisfaction and approval of surgeons. Therefore, research and development are major factors in our dynamic organization which requires our involvement in interdisciplinary studies. We also conducted meticulous researches to improve our products based on multiple experiences of attending surgical operations.

Our mission

Providing top notch detailed oriented products which contribute to the success of surgical operations and proved to be satisfactory to surgeons along with its effect on reducing the healing time of patients. We guarantee the continuity of the excellence of our products through working with a dynamic and experienced engineering team to satisfy the need of high-quality products and fast supply in the sector.

Our vision

We aim to provide our service to the worldwide medical sector and gain an international recognition of PRODORTH brand as one of the major surgical suppliers with the determination to enlarge our product line to accommodate the ever-rising need of the medical sector.

Quality Management

In our opinion, “A sustainable quality mentality” is the most critical fact for the permanency of a company. The main approach of RD MEDICAL is to maintain high quality products for the long run, an approach which aims at earning trust and building loyalty with our customers who we aim to serve for the long term.

All our manufacturing processes are followed up and managed in accordance with the medical device directive 93/42/EEC, ISO 13485:2016 and CE standards. At the same time, the transition to the 2017/745/EC Medical Device Regulation (MDR)  is in progress.

Instead of using these certificates just as keys for trade, we prefer managing our business according the requirements of these systems. ISO 13485:2016 Quality Management System is efficiently adapted on the organization of RD MEDICAL and provides a 100% traceability from initial to final product.

Our main task with respect to Quality Management  is ensuring a complete control in a reliable and continuous production quality with machining, polishing, washing, color anodizing and laser marking units within our organization.

​Biomechanical and biocompatibility tests were performed in accordance with ASTM and ISO standards which are required to launch our products to the market reliably in addition, all Prodorth products are firstly used by our surgeons and only launched to market after  the succesful clinical outcomes are obtained.

​​Any healthcare professional (e.g. surgeon using the products) who has a complaint or is dissatisfied with quality, identification, reliability, safety, efficacy and/or performance of Prodorth Systems, are responsible from informing either Prodorth or the distributor.

Simple Technigues, Sophisticated Solutions

We reflect the value of our brand to our products and we would like to see the doctors feel our effort of understanding and solving their problems.   High Quality and innovation are the first details you will notice about PRODORTH products.

R&D / Innovation

RD Medical has identified the problems during surgical operations and contacted surgeons on this issue. These feed-backs and internal discussions, analysis and wide researches provide new approaches which leads to new ideas.

Research and development, to guarantee the production of high quality products will be always the priority of RD Medical to which “R&D” initials were adopted.

There are patent pending products of PRODORTH such as “PLIF Cage with Screw”.

Product Specifications

Products & Raw materials​

Material selection is one of the most important point for implants.

Titanium Alloy (Ti6Al4V-Grade 5 / ISO 5832-3 / ASTM F136) and PEEK (Polyether-ether-kethon / ASTM F2026) are used as raw materials for all PRODORTH products and these are all originated from EU and USA. Both material are biocompatible and adequate for long term use

(C = Permanent (> 30 days)).​

PEEK material is a remarkable raw material with its unique properties;​

•Biocompatible

•It does not cause any lesional problems.

•Has elastical and hardness features near to bone tissue.•Titanium alloy materials give an opaque image under X-Ray, besides PEEK materials is able to be viewed transparently. This provides a more efficient follow-up for the bone fusion through the implant material at post-operative duration

SPINE DEVICES – SPINE IMPLANTS

POSTERIOR FIXATION SYSTEMS

Thoracolumbar Pedicle Screws

·         Prodorth Pedicle Screws have a unique design with V-Shaped highly sharp threads, as well as a polished surface which results in succesful clinical outcomes.

·         As it's proven so far, there is a direct relationship between the profile and the design of the pedicle screws with the pull-out strength, hence a strict quality control process is performed on the threads during the production.

·         Stronger connection with head part by milled surface feature.

·         More reliable tightening with the torx design of setscrew. Reverse angled setscrew thread design.

·         Easy initiative insertion.

·         Mono threaded and double threaded options are availabe on request. Double threaded Pedicle Screws have been designed for reducing the number of turns required for a complete implantation which reduce the operation time in result.

·         Titanium / Ti6Al4V (ASTM F 136) is used as raw materials for all PRODORTH pedicle screws and these are all originated only from reliable partners in USA.

Prodorth Posterior Fixation System is used for stabilizing the disorders in spine. The system is composed of  different type of pedicle screws, rods, connectors and some other supplementary elements.

This system is completely manufactured from Ti6Al4V (ISO 5832-3) material. (Except the PEEK rods which are made of PEEK material/ASTM F2026)

PRODORTH Posterior Fixation System has been used since 2013 in domestic market (Turkey), 2014 in EU countries, and Asia-Pacific region and since 2015 in South America and Middle-East. We continue our journey by expanding in new markets with an increasing satisfaction from the surgeons.​

Within recent years, the system has been developed and revised according to feed-backs from surgeons and customers, which led to establishing a reliable system that corresponds to the scientific requirements and the  finest technical details demanded by surgeons.

Mechanism of Action for Prodorth Posterior Fixation Implant System is implantation of the system into the vertebras and connection with rods and transverse connectors which generates an efficient  support to spine by a rigid construction in order to provide stabilization of spinal segments in skeletally mature patients as an adjunct to fusion in the treatment of the acute and chronic instabilities or deformities of the cervical, thoracic, lumbar, and sacral spine.

In other words, it provides stabilization to promote fusion following reduction of fracture/dislocation or trauma in the spinal junction and the spine.

INSTRUMENTS PROPERTIES​

·         Made of special stainless steel raw material with ultra high corrosion resistance and silicone appropriate for medical applications.

·         Besides the high corrosion resistance, they are also appropriate for all kind of sterilization types including steam sterilization at high temperatures. (Up to 137° degree)

·         Critical instruments such as screw drivers, nut drivers are offered double pieces in the container in case of any failure or falling on the floor. Hence the surgeon will be able to continue surgery without wasting time.

·         Special designed rod cutters provides less burrs and easier cutting are available on request.

·         Entire items of Prodorth Instrumentation are CE certified.

·         We offer a completely suitable instruments for degenerative, as well as deformity cases. It's possible to add or exclude the required instruments according to our customers' needs.

ROD & CONNECTORS

Linear & Multiaxial

PRODORTH Connectors have been designed to provide the most stable construction with different sizes.

We offer mainly two types of connectors as “Linear Connectors” and “Multiaxial Connectors” as well as various designs considering the needs of our clients.

PLIF PEEK CAGES

Regular PLIF - Expandable PLIF - PLIF with Screw

Standard and Expandable types  besides various sizes are available

·         Made of PEEK (ASTM F2026) which is a polymer based composite material and Ti6Al4V (ASTM F 136) materials.

·         Holding inferior and superior areas strongly with appropriate surface design.

·         X-Ray Markers for easy visualization during implantation.

·         Toothed surface design to prevent migration

·         Easy to implant with sharp ended design.​

·         Stopping system during expansion.

·         Sufficient space for fusion.

·         Anatomical geometry

PLIF PEEK CAGE with THREAD

·         PEEK material (ASTM F2026) and Titanium (ASTM F 136) is combined through the creation journey of ProMole. As it’s accepted by health authorities, PEEK does not cause any lesional problems in addition its elasticity and hardness features are quite near to bone tissue.

·         Since ProMole has the titanium threads on the tip and the marker pins behind, surgeon can follow ProMole during surgery very efficiently.

·         ProMole can be connected  with its instruments very easily .

·         Once the internal appratus of its inserter placed through the inserter, it can rotate the thread at the front.

·         When the thread is rotated clockwise, ProMole will be pulling itself into the intervertebral area. Likewise it is able to be unscrewed by rotating the thread anticlockwise. These specifications of it provides a more reliable and easy implantation considering the traditional PLIF procedure

·         PROMOLE® Cages provides a gradually placement.

·         Toothed surface feature for best-holding the inferior and superior areas.

·         PEEK material  is originated  from EVONIK Industries Germany.

·         X-ray marker pins for the visibility.

·         Various sizes are available on request.

TLIF PEEK CAGE

Rotatable Design

Prodorth TLIF Cage is intended for single use only and restore the degenerative disc pathologies.

Prodorth TLIF Cage  is made of PEEK (ASTM F2026) which is a polymer based composite material and Ti6Al4V (ASTM F 136) material.

·         PRODORTH Tlif Cages ® provides an uninterrupted guidance during operation.

·         Circular toothed surface feature for a better holding on the inferior and superior areas.

·         It has the capability of movement to both directions.

·         It can be fixed by rotating the wheel behind Inserter, and it is easily released by loosening.

·         This provides an easy positioning as required.

·         After discectomy, the wheel is rotated clockwise while the TLIF cage is positioned upright and it’s placed into intervertebral area so on.

·         After that the wheel is loosened and the ProDolphin is released as at the required position.

·         All the procedure is performed by a single instrument.

CERVICAL DISC PROSTHESIS

One Piece Design

·         Completely made of titanium and PEEK.

·         PEEK material at the inner mechanism, provides a super-smooth surface for a perfect motion capability.

·         PEEK cover which is shaped as a tube, has been positioned around the inner mechanism in order to prevent the bone-fusion through the inside of disc prosthesis.

·         One-piece design.

·         Dark anodized and rough surface options are available

·         Physical capability of Flexion Extension - Lateral Bending – Rotation. Minimizing the scratching by the coating.

·         Special design for the most effective movement ability

·         Reliable construction for best-holding on endplates.

·         Reliable and stable connection with the instrument. Appropriate for Smith-Robinson approach.

·         Ti6Al4V (Grade 5) is used as raw materials for all PRODORTH disc prosthesis and these are all originated only from reliable partners in USA. PEEK material is supplied from EVONIK INDUSTRIES Germany. All certificates are available on request.

PRODORTH Cervical Disc Prosthesis is an implantation system used for eleminating the complaints of the patients which rise from the herniation at discs, traumas or any disorders on cervical spine.

PROCORAL V.2  is composed of 2 plates working separately and connected each other by a kind of a particular pin, besides a special designed PEEK system is used at the inner mechanism to obtain a more efficient movement capability.

Using ProCoral V.2  cervical disc prosthesis instead of traditional fusion cages minimize the Heterotopic Ossification, with its capability to make motions to various directions  and in result it has more similar specifications to an healthy disc.

ProCoral V.2 is designed as Metal - PEEK - Metal (M-P-M)  construction with various sizes and footprints. One piece design of it, provides an easier surgical tecnique as well as the great fixation with its inserter. Furthermore its wear resistance is pretty higher than competitors with its M-P-M design and for long-term, better results have been obtained on post-operative period. The Prodorth’s top-notch technology “PEEK tube” cover around the inner mechanism prevent the undesired bone fusion into the disc prosthesis.

CERVICAL ARTIFICIAL DISC – TOTAL DISC REPLACEMENT

·         Completely made of titanium and PEEK.

·         PEEK material at the inner mechanism, provides a super-smooth surface for a perfect motion capability.

·         PEEK cover which is shaped as a tube, has been positioned around the inner mechanism in order to prevent the bone-fusion through the inside of disc prosthesis.

·         One-piece design.

·         Dark anodized and rough surface options are available

·         Physical capability of Flexion Extension - Lateral Bending – Rotation. Minimizing the scratching by the coating.

·         Special design for the most effective movement ability

·         Reliable construction for best-holding on endplates.

·         Reliable and stable connection with the instrument. Appropriate for Smith-Robinson approach.

·         Ti6Al4V (Grade 5) is used as raw materials for all PRODORTH disc prosthesis and these are all originated only from reliable partners in USA. PEEK material is supplied from EVONIK INDUSTRIES Germany. All certificates are available on request.

CERVICAL PEEK CAGES​

PROYSTER®

Cervical Peek Cage provides a great fixation with its blade, which makes it a "Stand-Alone Interbody Cage" possible to be used without a plate.

One of the best advantage of Proyster® is offering a very simple application which is usally found pretty user-friendly by the surgeons.

Proyster® Peek Cage with mono / double blade options and regular cervical peek cages are available on request.

·         Toothed surface is designed to prevent migration.

·         Anatomical geometry.

·         X-Ray Markers provide an easy placement.

·         Made of PEEK material, originated  from EVONIK Industries Germany. Titanium alloy materials give opaque image under X-Ray, however PEEK materials is able to be seen transparently. This provides efficient following of the bone fusion through the implant at the intended periods.

·         Blades for a more reliable holding between the endplates.

·         Maximum Strong Construction / Fusion Space ratio.

·         Various sizes and footprints are available.

CERVICAL CAGES

·         Toothed surface is designed to prevent migration.

·         Anatomical geometry.

·         X-Ray Markers provide an easy placement.

·         Made of PEEK material, originated  from EVONIK Industries Germany. Titanium alloy materials give opaque image under X-Ray, however PEEK materials is able to be seen transparently. This provides efficient following of the bone fusion through the implant at the intended periods.

·         Blades for a more reliable holding between the endplates.

·         Maximum Strong Construction / Fusion Space ratio.

·         Various sizes and footprints are available.

Distributorship

One of the initial goals of PRODORTH is supplying highest quality  implants with the finest conditions to our customers. Therefore we pay a great attention to our products, a policy which stems from our belief that all people deserve to receive a topnotch health care.

Thus we always aim to provide an excellent service to our customers as we are keen to establish a long term relationship with them. PRODORTH services are available in various locations worldwide. Agents and distributors' information is kept confidential with us. For further information please don't hesitate to contact us.

Our customer service will be happy to answer all your queries.​

Distribution details;

* Distribution zone

* Discount rates

* Training with your staff and technical support

* Contents of our goods

* Distribution contract

Please contact us.

Source: spine company, spine device, pedicle screw

[samurbelgeselleri]

Spinal Fixation Systems – Spine Implants – Spine Company

RD MEDICAL is dedicated to supply the best implants & instruments to the market and founded by mechanical and materials engineers who are experienced in designing and manufacturing fields, as well by the consultancy of clinical experts. Company serves as an OEM and takes part within biomedical industry with its innovative and high quality products. PRODORTH products are designed, manufactured and developed in our organization, the results of which are always appreciated by well-known surgeons.

PRODORTH began its journey with the principle of “Human First” and always proceed in this way.

Knowledge combined with technology and innovator approach

We respect the know-how and appreciate its value. Some of PRODORTH products are pending for patent.

We always see the great results of integrating advanced scientific methods to guarantee better health recovery experience.

About Us

Since the establishment of RD MEDICAL, communication and service quality have been significantly improved with distributors.

We always follow new approaches and develop advanced methods to accommodate our products with the top notch technologies of the field in order to guarantee the satisfaction and approval of surgeons. Therefore, research and development are major factors in our dynamic organization which requires our involvement in interdisciplinary studies. We also conducted meticulous researches to improve our products based on multiple experiences of attending surgical operations.

Our mission

Providing top notch detailed oriented products which contribute to the success of surgical operations and proved to be satisfactory to surgeons along with its effect on reducing the healing time of patients. We guarantee the continuity of the excellence of our products through working with a dynamic and experienced engineering team to satisfy the need of high-quality products and fast supply in the sector.

Our vision

We aim to provide our service to the worldwide medical sector and gain an international recognition of PRODORTH brand as one of the major surgical suppliers with the determination to enlarge our product line to accommodate the ever-rising need of the medical sector.

Quality Management

In our opinion, “A sustainable quality mentality” is the most critical fact for the permanency of a company. The main approach of RD MEDICAL is to maintain high quality products for the long run, an approach which aims at earning trust and building loyalty with our customers who we aim to serve for the long term.

All our manufacturing processes are followed up and managed in accordance with the medical device directive 93/42/EEC, ISO 13485:2016 and CE standards. At the same time, the transition to the 2017/745/EC Medical Device Regulation (MDR)  is in progress.

Instead of using these certificates just as keys for trade, we prefer managing our business according the requirements of these systems. ISO 13485:2016 Quality Management System is efficiently adapted on the organization of RD MEDICAL and provides a 100% traceability from initial to final product.

Our main task with respect to Quality Management  is ensuring a complete control in a reliable and continuous production quality with machining, polishing, washing, color anodizing and laser marking units within our organization.

​Biomechanical and biocompatibility tests were performed in accordance with ASTM and ISO standards which are required to launch our products to the market reliably in addition, all Prodorth products are firstly used by our surgeons and only launched to market after  the succesful clinical outcomes are obtained.

​​Any healthcare professional (e.g. surgeon using the products) who has a complaint or is dissatisfied with quality, identification, reliability, safety, efficacy and/or performance of Prodorth Systems, are responsible from informing either Prodorth or the distributor.

Simple Technigues, Sophisticated Solutions

We reflect the value of our brand to our products and we would like to see the doctors feel our effort of understanding and solving their problems.   High Quality and innovation are the first details you will notice about PRODORTH products.

R&D / Innovation

RD Medical has identified the problems during surgical operations and contacted surgeons on this issue. These feed-backs and internal discussions, analysis and wide researches provide new approaches which leads to new ideas.

Research and development, to guarantee the production of high quality products will be always the priority of RD Medical to which “R&D” initials were adopted.

There are patent pending products of PRODORTH such as “PLIF Cage with Screw”.

Product Specifications

Products & Raw materials​

Material selection is one of the most important point for implants.

Titanium Alloy (Ti6Al4V-Grade 5 / ISO 5832-3 / ASTM F136) and PEEK (Polyether-ether-kethon / ASTM F2026) are used as raw materials for all PRODORTH products and these are all originated from EU and USA. Both material are biocompatible and adequate for long term use

(C = Permanent (> 30 days)).​

PEEK material is a remarkable raw material with its unique properties;​

•Biocompatible

•It does not cause any lesional problems.

•Has elastical and hardness features near to bone tissue.•Titanium alloy materials give an opaque image under X-Ray, besides PEEK materials is able to be viewed transparently. This provides a more efficient follow-up for the bone fusion through the implant material at post-operative duration

SPINE DEVICES – SPINE IMPLANTS

POSTERIOR FIXATION SYSTEMS

Thoracolumbar Pedicle Screws

·         Prodorth Pedicle Screws have a unique design with V-Shaped highly sharp threads, as well as a polished surface which results in succesful clinical outcomes.

·         As it's proven so far, there is a direct relationship between the profile and the design of the pedicle screws with the pull-out strength, hence a strict quality control process is performed on the threads during the production.

·         Stronger connection with head part by milled surface feature.

·         More reliable tightening with the torx design of setscrew. Reverse angled setscrew thread design.

·         Easy initiative insertion.

·         Mono threaded and double threaded options are availabe on request. Double threaded Pedicle Screws have been designed for reducing the number of turns required for a complete implantation which reduce the operation time in result.

·         Titanium / Ti6Al4V (ASTM F 136) is used as raw materials for all PRODORTH pedicle screws and these are all originated only from reliable partners in USA.

Prodorth Posterior Fixation System is used for stabilizing the disorders in spine. The system is composed of  different type of pedicle screws, rods, connectors and some other supplementary elements.

This system is completely manufactured from Ti6Al4V (ISO 5832-3) material. (Except the PEEK rods which are made of PEEK material/ASTM F2026)

PRODORTH Posterior Fixation System has been used since 2013 in domestic market (Turkey), 2014 in EU countries, and Asia-Pacific region and since 2015 in South America and Middle-East. We continue our journey by expanding in new markets with an increasing satisfaction from the surgeons.​

Within recent years, the system has been developed and revised according to feed-backs from surgeons and customers, which led to establishing a reliable system that corresponds to the scientific requirements and the  finest technical details demanded by surgeons.

Mechanism of Action for Prodorth Posterior Fixation Implant System is implantation of the system into the vertebras and connection with rods and transverse connectors which generates an efficient  support to spine by a rigid construction in order to provide stabilization of spinal segments in skeletally mature patients as an adjunct to fusion in the treatment of the acute and chronic instabilities or deformities of the cervical, thoracic, lumbar, and sacral spine.

In other words, it provides stabilization to promote fusion following reduction of fracture/dislocation or trauma in the spinal junction and the spine.

INSTRUMENTS PROPERTIES​

·         Made of special stainless steel raw material with ultra high corrosion resistance and silicone appropriate for medical applications.

·         Besides the high corrosion resistance, they are also appropriate for all kind of sterilization types including steam sterilization at high temperatures. (Up to 137° degree)

·         Critical instruments such as screw drivers, nut drivers are offered double pieces in the container in case of any failure or falling on the floor. Hence the surgeon will be able to continue surgery without wasting time.

·         Special designed rod cutters provides less burrs and easier cutting are available on request.

·         Entire items of Prodorth Instrumentation are CE certified.

·         We offer a completely suitable instruments for degenerative, as well as deformity cases. It's possible to add or exclude the required instruments according to our customers' needs.

ROD & CONNECTORS

Linear & Multiaxial

PRODORTH Connectors have been designed to provide the most stable construction with different sizes.

We offer mainly two types of connectors as “Linear Connectors” and “Multiaxial Connectors” as well as various designs considering the needs of our clients.

PLIF PEEK CAGES

Regular PLIF - Expandable PLIF - PLIF with Screw

Standard and Expandable types  besides various sizes are available

·         Made of PEEK (ASTM F2026) which is a polymer based composite material and Ti6Al4V (ASTM F 136) materials.

·         Holding inferior and superior areas strongly with appropriate surface design.

·         X-Ray Markers for easy visualization during implantation.

·         Toothed surface design to prevent migration

·         Easy to implant with sharp ended design.​

·         Stopping system during expansion.

·         Sufficient space for fusion.

·         Anatomical geometry

PLIF PEEK CAGE with THREAD

·         PEEK material (ASTM F2026) and Titanium (ASTM F 136) is combined through the creation journey of ProMole. As it’s accepted by health authorities, PEEK does not cause any lesional problems in addition its elasticity and hardness features are quite near to bone tissue.

·         Since ProMole has the titanium threads on the tip and the marker pins behind, surgeon can follow ProMole during surgery very efficiently.

·         ProMole can be connected  with its instruments very easily .

·         Once the internal appratus of its inserter placed through the inserter, it can rotate the thread at the front.

·         When the thread is rotated clockwise, ProMole will be pulling itself into the intervertebral area. Likewise it is able to be unscrewed by rotating the thread anticlockwise. These specifications of it provides a more reliable and easy implantation considering the traditional PLIF procedure

·         PROMOLE® Cages provides a gradually placement.

·         Toothed surface feature for best-holding the inferior and superior areas.

·         PEEK material  is originated  from EVONIK Industries Germany.

·         X-ray marker pins for the visibility.

·         Various sizes are available on request.

TLIF PEEK CAGE

Rotatable Design

Prodorth TLIF Cage is intended for single use only and restore the degenerative disc pathologies.

Prodorth TLIF Cage  is made of PEEK (ASTM F2026) which is a polymer based composite material and Ti6Al4V (ASTM F 136) material.

·         PRODORTH Tlif Cages ® provides an uninterrupted guidance during operation.

·         Circular toothed surface feature for a better holding on the inferior and superior areas.

·         It has the capability of movement to both directions.

·         It can be fixed by rotating the wheel behind Inserter, and it is easily released by loosening.

·         This provides an easy positioning as required.

·         After discectomy, the wheel is rotated clockwise while the TLIF cage is positioned upright and it’s placed into intervertebral area so on.

·         After that the wheel is loosened and the ProDolphin is released as at the required position.

·         All the procedure is performed by a single instrument.

CERVICAL DISC PROSTHESIS

One Piece Design

·         Completely made of titanium and PEEK.

·         PEEK material at the inner mechanism, provides a super-smooth surface for a perfect motion capability.

·         PEEK cover which is shaped as a tube, has been positioned around the inner mechanism in order to prevent the bone-fusion through the inside of disc prosthesis.

·         One-piece design.

·         Dark anodized and rough surface options are available

·         Physical capability of Flexion Extension - Lateral Bending – Rotation. Minimizing the scratching by the coating.

·         Special design for the most effective movement ability

·         Reliable construction for best-holding on endplates.

·         Reliable and stable connection with the instrument. Appropriate for Smith-Robinson approach.

·         Ti6Al4V (Grade 5) is used as raw materials for all PRODORTH disc prosthesis and these are all originated only from reliable partners in USA. PEEK material is supplied from EVONIK INDUSTRIES Germany. All certificates are available on request.

PRODORTH Cervical Disc Prosthesis is an implantation system used for eleminating the complaints of the patients which rise from the herniation at discs, traumas or any disorders on cervical spine.

PROCORAL V.2  is composed of 2 plates working separately and connected each other by a kind of a particular pin, besides a special designed PEEK system is used at the inner mechanism to obtain a more efficient movement capability.

Using ProCoral V.2  cervical disc prosthesis instead of traditional fusion cages minimize the Heterotopic Ossification, with its capability to make motions to various directions  and in result it has more similar specifications to an healthy disc.

ProCoral V.2 is designed as Metal - PEEK - Metal (M-P-M)  construction with various sizes and footprints. One piece design of it, provides an easier surgical tecnique as well as the great fixation with its inserter. Furthermore its wear resistance is pretty higher than competitors with its M-P-M design and for long-term, better results have been obtained on post-operative period. The Prodorth’s top-notch technology “PEEK tube” cover around the inner mechanism prevent the undesired bone fusion into the disc prosthesis.

CERVICAL ARTIFICIAL DISC – TOTAL DISC REPLACEMENT

·         Completely made of titanium and PEEK.

·         PEEK material at the inner mechanism, provides a super-smooth surface for a perfect motion capability.

·         PEEK cover which is shaped as a tube, has been positioned around the inner mechanism in order to prevent the bone-fusion through the inside of disc prosthesis.

·         One-piece design.

·         Dark anodized and rough surface options are available

·         Physical capability of Flexion Extension - Lateral Bending – Rotation. Minimizing the scratching by the coating.

·         Special design for the most effective movement ability

·         Reliable construction for best-holding on endplates.

·         Reliable and stable connection with the instrument. Appropriate for Smith-Robinson approach.

·         Ti6Al4V (Grade 5) is used as raw materials for all PRODORTH disc prosthesis and these are all originated only from reliable partners in USA. PEEK material is supplied from EVONIK INDUSTRIES Germany. All certificates are available on request.

CERVICAL PEEK CAGES​

PROYSTER®

Cervical Peek Cage provides a great fixation with its blade, which makes it a "Stand-Alone Interbody Cage" possible to be used without a plate.

One of the best advantage of Proyster® is offering a very simple application which is usally found pretty user-friendly by the surgeons.

Proyster® Peek Cage with mono / double blade options and regular cervical peek cages are available on request.

·         Toothed surface is designed to prevent migration.

·         Anatomical geometry.

·         X-Ray Markers provide an easy placement.

·         Made of PEEK material, originated  from EVONIK Industries Germany. Titanium alloy materials give opaque image under X-Ray, however PEEK materials is able to be seen transparently. This provides efficient following of the bone fusion through the implant at the intended periods.

·         Blades for a more reliable holding between the endplates.

·         Maximum Strong Construction / Fusion Space ratio.

·         Various sizes and footprints are available.

CERVICAL CAGES

·         Toothed surface is designed to prevent migration.

·         Anatomical geometry.

·         X-Ray Markers provide an easy placement.

·         Made of PEEK material, originated  from EVONIK Industries Germany. Titanium alloy materials give opaque image under X-Ray, however PEEK materials is able to be seen transparently. This provides efficient following of the bone fusion through the implant at the intended periods.

·         Blades for a more reliable holding between the endplates.

·         Maximum Strong Construction / Fusion Space ratio.

·         Various sizes and footprints are available.

Distributorship

One of the initial goals of PRODORTH is supplying highest quality  implants with the finest conditions to our customers. Therefore we pay a great attention to our products, a policy which stems from our belief that all people deserve to receive a topnotch health care.

Thus we always aim to provide an excellent service to our customers as we are keen to establish a long term relationship with them. PRODORTH services are available in various locations worldwide. Agents and distributors' information is kept confidential with us. For further information please don't hesitate to contact us.

Our customer service will be happy to answer all your queries.​

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